The essential elements of a dry Japanese garden are few: rocks,
gravel, moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form and
a memory theatre, these gardens exhibit beautiful miniaturization
and precise craftsmanship. However, their apparent minimalism
belies a deeper complexity. In Zen Landscapes, Allen S. Weiss takes
readers on a 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,
thus revealing them as living landscapes rather than abstract
designs. These gardens are inspired by the Zen aesthetics of the
tea ceremony, manifested in poetry, painting, calligraphy,
architecture, cuisine and ceramics. Japanese art favours suggestion
and allusion, valuing the threshold between the distinct and the
inchoate, between figuration and abstraction, and Weiss argues that
ceramics play a crucial role here, relating as much to the
site-specificity of landscape as to the ritualized codes of the tea
ceremony and the everyday gestures of the culinary table. With more
than 100 stunning colour photographs, Zen Landscapes is the first
in-depth study in the West to examine the correspondences between
gardens and ceramics. A fascinating look at landscape art and its
relation to the customs and craftsmanship of the Japanese arts, it
will appeal to readers interested in landscape design and Japan's
art and culture.
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