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Reading Zen in the Rocks : The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden
ISBN: 9780226044125 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted--and long baffled--viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. Reading Zen in the Rocks, the classic essay on the karesansui garden by French art historian Francois Berthier, has now been translated by Graham Parkes, giving English-speaking readers a concise, thorough, and beautifully illustrated history...
The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted--and long baffled--viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating ...
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88,86 zł |
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The Mini Zen Gardening Kit
ISBN: 9780762408283 / Angielski / Other Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This carry-along version of our enormously popular Zen Gardening Kit provides a touch of tranquility on the go. Packaged with a 32page introduction to the aesthetic enlightenment of Zen gardening, it includes a tray, fine sand, decorative rocks, and miniature wooden rake.
This carry-along version of our enormously popular Zen Gardening Kit provides a touch of tranquility on the go. Packaged with a 32page introduc...
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26,09 zł |
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101 Essential Tips: Bonsai: Breaks Down the Subject Into 101 Easy-To-Grasp Tips
ISBN: 9780789496874 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Everything you need to know about bonsai care, maintenance, design, and arrangement. With clear explanations of bonsai and what it is, these 101 easy-to-grasp tips have everything you need to get the results you want. Build knowledge and confidence with this must-have pocket guide, filled with the essentials you're looking for including pointers and advice on cultivating bonsai plants. Create a sense of balance and serenity in your home with these beautiful miniature trees and bring the ancient practice into the 21st century. Using a step-by-step approach, 101 Essential Tips:... Everything you need to know about bonsai care, maintenance, design, and arrangement. With clear explanations of bonsai and what it is, these 101 ea... |
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24,54 zł |
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Beginning Bonsai
ISBN: 9780804817295 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Learn to grow and care for decorative bonsai trees with this user-friendly Japanese gardening book. For those with no bonsai tree growing experience, Beginning Bonsai: The Gentle Art of Miniature Tree Growing covers everything from buying the first plant for beginning bonsai to creating a miniature landscape of rocks, grasses and trees. Authors Larry and Shirley Student describe different bonsai styles, list important tools, explain pruning and pinching and introduce procedures like defoliation. They cover all aspects of how to cultivate these miniature trees, anticipating...
Learn to grow and care for decorative bonsai trees with this user-friendly Japanese gardening book. For those with no bonsai tree growing e...
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60,07 zł |
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The Art of Bonsai: Creation, Care and Enjoyment
ISBN: 9780804820912 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Learn the ins and outs of proper bonsai design and care with this comprehensive Japanese gardening book. Japanese bonsai have long been admired throughout the world while their care and preservation have seemed shrouded in mystery. The Art of Bonsai is, however, a comparatively simple art to learn. Anyone with a love a plants, a little patience and this eminently practical book can create bonsai and keep a finished plant healthy and vigorous for generations. Included in this definitive volume are:
Learn the ins and outs of proper bonsai design and care with this comprehensive Japanese gardening book. Japanese bonsai have long been adm...
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79,81 zł |
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Japanese Landscapes : Where Land and Culture Merge
ISBN: 9780813120904 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the busy streets of Tokyo to the secluded shores of Kyushu, from the volcanoes of Hokkaido to the temples of Kyoto, the treasured landscapes of Japan are brought to life in this concise visual guide. Drawing upon years of observation, Cotton Mather, P.P. Karan, and Shigeru Iijima explore the complex interaction of culture, time, and space in the evolution of landscapes in Japan. The authors begin with a discussion of the landscape's general characteristics, including paucity of idle land, scarcity of level land, and its meticulous organization and immaculate nature. They then apply... From the busy streets of Tokyo to the secluded shores of Kyushu, from the volcanoes of Hokkaido to the temples of Kyoto, the treasured landscapes o... |
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283,71 zł |
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Niwaki: Pruning, Training and Shaping Trees the Japanese Way
ISBN: 9780881928358 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Over the years, Japanese gardeners have fine-tuned a distinctive set of pruning techniques that coax out the essential characters of their garden trees, or niwaki. In this highly practical book, Western gardeners are encouraged to draw upon the techniques and sculpt their own garden trees to unique effect. After first discussing the principles that underpin the techniques, the author offers in-depth guidelines for shaping pines, azaleas, conifers, broadleaved evergreens, bamboos and deciduous trees. Throughout the text, step-by-step illustrations accompany the instructions, while...
Over the years, Japanese gardeners have fine-tuned a distinctive set of pruning techniques that coax out the essential characters of their garden tree...
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126,50 zł |
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Bonsai Survival Manual: Tree-By-Tree Guide to Buying, Maintaining, and Problem Solving
ISBN: 9780882668536 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Expand your gardening repertoire as you create a captivating and exquisite miniature world. In this introductory guide, Colin Lewis covers everything you need to know to design, grow, and successfully maintain attractive bonsai. Providing detailed profiles of 50 popular varieties of bonsai plants and trees, Lewis offers expert advice on selecting suitable species and step-by-step guidance on feeding, watering, shaping, maintaining proper temperatures, and troubleshooting common problems. Discover the joys of the ancient and fascinating world of bonsai. "Expand your gardening repertoire as you create a captivating and exquisite miniature world. In this introductory guide, Colin Lewis covers everythi... |
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91,65 zł |
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The Sphagnum Moss Bonsai Method : An Illustrated Handbook
ISBN: 9780786462926 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Most bonsai enthusiasts are familiar with the process of growing these miniature trees in soil, a method that dates back 2000 years. This instructional book explains a new method of growing bonsai trees in sphagnum moss, producing beautiful results with far less work than the traditional method. All topics pertinent to the successful growth of bonsai trees are covered, including watering, directional pruning, anti-fungicides and insecticides, bonsai styles and diagnosing problems. A huge improvement over traditional practices, the sphagnum moss method makes the growing of miniature trees much...
Most bonsai enthusiasts are familiar with the process of growing these miniature trees in soil, a method that dates back 2000 years. This instructiona...
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168,03 zł |
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An Index of the Bonsai Focus Magazine: Issues 1 (1989) to 160 (2016)
ISBN: 9780994453808 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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119,45 zł |
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Zen Gardens : The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's Leading Garden Designer
ISBN: 9784805311943 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama. He is celebrated for his unique ability to blend strikingly contemporary elements with the traditional design vernacular. He has worked in ultramodern urban hotels and in some of Japan's most famous classic gardens. In each project, his work as a designer of landscape architecture is inseparable from his Buddhist practice. Each becomes a Zen garden, "a special spiritual place...
Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist prie...
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158,77 zł |
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Japanese Stone Gardens: Origins, Meaning & Form
ISBN: 9784805314272 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Gain some new ideas along with the principles and history of Japanese stone gardening with this useful and beautiful garden design book. Japanese Stone Gardens provides a comprehensive introduction to the powerful mystique and dynamism of the Japanese stone garden--from their earliest use as props in animistic rituals, to their appropriation by Zen monks and priests to create settings conducive to contemplation and finally to their contemporary uses and meaning. With insightful text and abundant imagery, this book reveals the hidden order of stone gardens and in the process...
Gain some new ideas along with the principles and history of Japanese stone gardening with this useful and beautiful garden design book. |
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76,27 zł |
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The Japanese Tea Garden
ISBN: 9781611720150 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "A necessary addition to the library of any serious student."--The New York Times Sunday Book Review Almost every Japanese garden is influenced by the tea garden. Here, Marc Peter Keane describes the history, design, and aesthetics of tea gardens, from T'ang China to the present day, with over 115 stunning photographs, floor plans, and illustrations. The most extensive book on this genre ever published in English, The Japanese Tea Garden is a rich resource for garden lovers, historians, and landscape architects. Landscape architect Marc Peter Keane lived in... "A necessary addition to the library of any serious student."--The New York Times Sunday Book Review Almost every Japanese garden is i... |
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198,25 zł |
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Songs in the Garden: Poetry and Gardens in Ancient Japan
ISBN: 9780615603384 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The garden as a poem. Not simply a beautiful design to be appreciated by looking, but a living poem that can actually be read. That is the way gardens were thought of in Japan during the Heian period (794-1185). In that ancient society, a detailed understanding of poetry was an essential part of life for people in the literate classes. Poetic anthologies were learned by heart and all manner of communications either included poems or were interwoven with references to poetry. A central aspect of Heian-period poetry was that it employed images of nature as symbols of human emotions. A lonely...
The garden as a poem. Not simply a beautiful design to be appreciated by looking, but a living poem that can actually be read. That is the way gardens...
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71,32 zł |
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Quiet Beauty : The Japanese Gardens of North America
ISBN: 9784805311950 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. *Gold Medal winner in the 2014 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Home & Garden* "Just flipping through the pages of Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America will instantly lower your blood pressure."--The New York Times Book Review Quiet Beauty: Japanese Gardens of North America is an extraordinary look at the most beautiful and serene gardens of the United States and Canada. Most Japanese garden books look to the gardens of Japan. Quiet Beauty explores the treasure trove of Japanese gardens located in North America. Featuring an intimate...
*Gold Medal winner in the 2014 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Home & Garden* "Just flipping through the pages of Quiet Beauty: The Japanes...
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139,03 zł |
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Creating Bonsai: Master Simple Methods by Developing Effective Habits
ISBN: 9781482369755 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Master Simple Methods by Developing Effective Habits: You would love to have a bonsai tree You may be one of the unfortunate ones who say, "I had one but it died," even after reading many articles on the internet about how to care for a bonsai tree. After reading all the posts and maybe even a few books about needing the right combination of soil, light and water. You read things like, ..".for proper care you must make certain that the soil is always moist but not too moist" or "too much water will cause roots to rot." Know you are confused enough to say enough is enough, caring for a bonsai...
Master Simple Methods by Developing Effective Habits: You would love to have a bonsai tree You may be one of the unfortunate ones who say, "I had one ...
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34,17 zł |
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The Mini Bonsai Kit
ISBN: 9780762409747 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. With this kit, complete with a 32page book explaining bonsai gardening, an instruction sheet, a small pot, a peat pellet, a packet of seeds, and a pair of scissors, indoor gardeners can grow a peaceful mini-garden anywhere they choose. Whether it's on a desk or in a kitchen, this little bit of greenery will brighten up the day-just add water! Also available in a full-size kit
With this kit, complete with a 32page book explaining bonsai gardening, an instruction sheet, a small pot, a peat pellet, a packet of seeds, and a pai...
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26,09 zł |
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Zen Landscapes : Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics
ISBN: 9781780231907 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The essential elements of a dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel, moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form, and a memory theater, these gardens exhibit beautiful miniaturization and precise craftsmanship. But their apparent minimalism belies a true complexity. In Zen Landscapes, Allen S. Weiss takes readers on an exciting journey through these exquisite sites, explaining how Japanese gardens must be approached according to the play of scale, surroundings, and seasons, as well as in relation to other arts revealing them as living landscapes rather than abstract...
The essential elements of a dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel, moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form, and a memory theater, ...
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225,91 zł |
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Simple Ways To Turn Your Garden Japanese
ISBN: 9781909908048 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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40,49 zł |
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Japanese Gardens Revealed and Explained
ISBN: 9781909908055 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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40,49 zł |