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050	0	0	_aSB451.36.A78 _bT87 2011
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100	1		_aTurner, Tom _q(Thomas Henry Duke), _d1946-
245	1	0	_aAsian gardens : _bhistory, beliefs, and design / _cTom Turner.
260			_aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon. ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2011.
300			_axii, 336 p. : _bcol. ill. ; _c26 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 322-328) and index.
505	0		_aBelief and gardens -- 2. Polytheist gardens -- 3. Islamic gardens -- 4. Hindu gardens -- 5. Buddhist gardens -- 6. Daoist-Buddhist gardens in China -- 7. Shinto-Buddhist gardens in Japan -- 8. International modern gardens in Asia -- Afterword -- Maps.
520			_aThe gardens made on the fringes of Central Asia in the past 5000 years form a great arc. From the Fertile Crescent, it runs west to Europe and east to China and Japan. Asia's fringe was a zone of interchange: a vast landscape in which herders encountered farmers and the design of symbolic gardens began. It appears that as they became settlers, nomads retained a love of mobility, hunting and the wild places in which their ancestors had roamed. Central Asian and Indian ideas influenced the garden culture of China, Japan and South East Asia. In West Asia, Aryan settlers made hunting parks known as paradises. They were walled enclosures stocked with exotic plants and animals. In East Asia, great landscape parks were used for similar purposes and had a sacred role. Across Asia, gardens were influenced by religious and other beliefs: polytheist, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Daoist, Shinto and Modernist. Early parks and gardens symbolized wild and civilized nature, sometimes conceived as the realms of the Sky God and the Earth Mother. Asian Gardens: History, Beliefs and Design explores the ways in which designs were guided by beliefs. Tom Turner has been researching and teaching the theory and history of garden design for some forty years. His visits, research, drawings and photographs are brought together in detailed studies of West Asia, South Asia and East Asia. The period covered extends from the earliest gardens to the present. Using maps, diagrams and photographs, the author explores how and why Asian gardens developed their characteristic forms and functions. Treating garden design as a 'word and image' subject, the account is coherent, comparative and readable. Further details of all the gardens are available on the gardenvisit.com website, which the author edits.
650		0	_aGardens _zAsia _xHistory.
650		0	_aJapanese gardens
650		0	_alandscape architecture
650		0	_aGardens _zAsia _xDesign.
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