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Securing the generous support of the politicians and industrialists who propelled Japan's modernization, Ogawa Jihei VII created many outstanding gardens at the end of the nineteenth and the first few decades of the twentieth century. expressing a Japanese aesthetic even while incorporating modern techniques, his methodology reveals the nature of modernization as Japan experienced it. With a keen eye for architecture, the author takes a long-awaited look at modernization and the modern garden.

Gardens --- J6586 --- History --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- urban planning -- parks and gardens. --- Ogawa, Jihē, --- Gardening --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- urban planning -- parks and gardens --- Ogawa, Jihei, --- 小川治兵衛,

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"Japan's Wooden Heritage: A Journey Through a Thousand Years of Architecture brings together essays by architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori and photographs by Mitsumasa Fujitsuka, and commentary by structural engineer Mikio Koshihara that originally appeared in Kateigahō, Japan's premier magazine of art and culture, supplemented with additional essays by Mitsumasa Fujitsuka. What distinguishes this volume is its selection of 23 locations--including well-known temples and shrines but also lesser-known structures--to represent a broad scope of architectural styles, functions, and time periods; the outstanding photographs; and the distinct approaches taken by each of the three essayists"--

J6560 --- J6561 --- J6578 --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- architecture -- special classes of buildings --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- architecture -- religious buildings --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- architecture -- domestic and residential architecture --- Vernacular architecture --- Wooden-frame buildings --- Architecture --- Holzbau. --- History. --- History --- Japan. --- Holzbau --- Japan