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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Turning Gardens in Japan Into Japanese Gardens: Nation, Nature, Heritage, and Modernity Since the 1890s

Turning Gardens in Japan Into Japanese Gardens: Nation, Nature, Heritage, and Modernity Since the 1890s

Tagsold, Christian

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General ArtJapanese HistoryJapanese Gardens

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ISBN10: 1041189990
ISBN13: 9781041189992
Publisher: Routledge
Pages: 252
Language: English
In the mid nineteenth century, as Japan rapidly modernized, garden building declined in popularity. Only in the late nineteenth century did a new class of political and business leaders revive interest in horticulture, seeking garden designs that broke away from established patterns. As a result, these innovative gardens were largely overlooked by early Japanese garden historians and excluded from the canon they sought to establish. In recent years, both scholars and the public have begun to reexamine and appreciate these gardens and their creators. Now recognized as part of Japan's national heritage, these sites are being integrated into the history of Japanese horticulture. Christian Tagsold's book examines this rediscovery, unraveling the complex dynamics of nature, heritage, nationhood, and modernity in Japan through the lens of these gardens.

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