What is it about?
Book review of "Japanese Gardens and Landscapes, 1650–1950", Wybe Kuitert, Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, x, pp.373 + notes, index, ISBN: 978-0-812-24474-8, hb http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15578.html
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Why is it important?
The book is a timely, original and well-presented work. Filled with useful information and notes, historical pictures, detailed drawings and rare maps, and with original illustrations, this important work will be of great interest to graduates, scholars and researchers in urban and architectural history, history of the garden and landscape architecture, and those interested in Japanese culture and East Asian studies.
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Wybe Kuitert’s Japanese Gardens and Landscapes, 1650–1950 is a massive, carefully documented volume that is conceived as part of a larger investigation on the history, cultural, and artistic peculiarities of Japanese gardens and landscapes conducted by the author over several years.
Dr. Raffaele Pernice
University of New South Wales
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This page is a summary of: Japanese Gardens and Landscapes, 1650–1950, Japanese Studies, May 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2019.1612237.
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