The publication of Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese Garden is the first complete English translation of this classic work, and authors Jiro Takei and Marc P. Keane allow readers to discover the world of ancient Japanese garden design as it was originally transcribed. Extensive color and black and white illustrations place these elegant Japanese gardens in their proper context, illuminating the roles of religious tradition, nature, and spirituality in the arrangement of water, stones, and plants.

Creating Japanese Gardens by Philip Cave

Creating Your Own Japanese Garden by Takashi Sawano

Ortho's All About Creating Japanese Gardens

This book demonstrates how to...

• Create a feeling of sanctuary

• Make tranquil spaces

• Arrange plants and ornaments

Use centuries-old garden design techniques

• Emphasize personal taste

• Calm a busy lifestyle

• Inspire peace of mind

Reflect nature to create serenity

• Appropriate plant selections

• Traditional design

• Contemporary looks

Secret Teaching in the Art of Japanese Gardens by David Slawson

The Art of Japanese Gardens: Designing & Making Your Own Peaceful Space

To truly carry out many of Gustafson's projects, the reader needs to be extremely handy, or planning on hiring a professional. It's also an ideal coffee-table book for the urban apartment dweller who needs to be reminded of peaceful spaces every once in a while, even when the "journey thus far" seems like a series of missed connections and splitting headaches. --Emily White

From Booklist
A Japanese garden is, indeed, a thing of beauty and tranquility. Gustafson gives a multitude of ideas and suggestions for creating such a garden, but a rather large lot would be needed--not to mention the expense. In a chapter on boundaries, the author discusses the function of cedar and bamboo fences, safety rails, retaining walls, gates, and tile roofs. In a chapter on rocks, boulders, and stones, he writes about their uses in bridges, walkways, and paths. Water is a large part of Japanese... (read more at Amazon)

Revised and thoroughly updated, Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art presents new, thought-provoking interpretations of the evolution of Japanese garden art. Its depth and much-needed emphasis on a practical context for garden creation will appeal to art and literary historians as well as scholars, students, and appreciators of garden and landscape art, Asian and Western.

About the Author
Wybe Kuitert is a practicing garden architect currently living in the Netherlands and a visiting professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design.

The Modern Japanese Garden

The Lure of the Japanese Garden

The Garden as Architecture, Form and Spirit in the Gardens of Japan, China and Korea

The Art of Setting Stones and Other Writings from the Japanese Garden

Gardens of Gravel and Sand by Leonard Koren

Japanese Garden Design

You will learn how to lay stones and pathways and how to create intriguing sand patterns like the ones in Zen temple gardens. You will learn about Japanese lanterns, miniature pagodas, water basins, gates, and walls, and will be shown step by step how to make a bamboo lattice fence. Notes on the care of bamboo, moss, and grass are provided as are names of native North American plants and trees that can be substituted for conventional Japanese varieties. Schematic layout plans, detailed how-to explanations, and over 130 color photographs of Japanese gardens old and new give you ideas for endless variations.

Thoroughly up-to-date in its approach and based on the principle that a garden must satisfy the gardener, not a set of inflexible guidelines, this book encourages you to choose freely from the wide range of traditional Japanese design elements that suit your needs and tastes. Whether you live in the country, city, or somewhere in between, you will discover here numerous ways to transform--simply, inexpensively, and with your own two hands--that back porch, corridor, or yard into an intimate, tranquil oasis, one that will reward your planning and work with a rich and everchanging beauty.

Ingram
This book makes it possible for anyone to bring a touch of Oriental magic into his or her own back yard. The basic components of a Japanese garden and their functions are explained and illustrated in full color: stepping stones, statues, waterfalls, ponds, bamboo fences and gates, and more. 130 full-color photos.

Landscape Gardening in Japan

A man of wide interests, Conder was encouraged by the warm reception given his 1891 Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement to undertake a book on gardening. In preparing the present book, he relied not entirely on his own observations but consulted, and "freely borrowed from," some of the most reliable Japanese sources available at the time, the oldest dating to 1633. The resulting book is the product of a Western, Victorian perspective with access to Japanese authoritative texts.

Conder's study of the Japanese landscape garden led him to conclude that it represented universal qualities that could be applied to gardening anywhere. In addition to a discussion of these broader truths, the book is so finely detailed and so richly illustrated that it still serves today as a guide to modern garden-lovers, whether of a practical or a theoretical bent. The present volume combines the original study with an additional volume of photographs of famous gardens that was published shortly thereafter and entitled Supplement to Landscape Gardening in Japan. The interior of the book has been redesigned and the text newly set for easier reading and viewing.

The book has a new Foreword by Azby Brown and an Afterword by Terunobu Fujimori, providing background information on Conder and putting his accomplishments into perspective.

Jacket Illustration: Yokuon-en Zenzu (detail), National Diet Library. The Yokuon-en garden and villa was constructed by Matsudaira Sadanobu around 1794. (See Conder's description in Chapter 1 under Yoku-on-En.) The present illustration is a copy of an original bird's-eye view commemoratively painted in 1842 after the garden's destruction by fire in 1829.

From the Publisher
Foreword (abridged)

Josiah Conder was arguably the central figure in the establishment of modern Western architectural and construction practice in Japan. As a designer, his 50-plus built structures provided tangible models of Western style and thought; as an educator the curriculum he established at the Imperial College of Engineering (now the Department of Engineering at the University of Tokyo) shaped the first native Japanese architects in the technical and theoretical aspects of the craft,... (read more at Amazon)

Zen in Your Garden. Creating Sacred Spaces by Jenny Hendy

The Art and Wisdom of the Japanese Garden