A Study on the Technique of Garden Ponds Descrived in Painting Scrolls in the Period of Heian through Kamakura
1985 Volume 49 Issue 5 Pages 55-60
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1985 Volume 49 Issue 5 Pages 55-60
The garden ponds in the period of Heian through Kamakura have been already described in the two traditional text books of gradening. And also we could know about them through some garden remains which featured garden ponds in the period. Besides these evidence the purpose of this study is to complete Japanese garden history especially about the garden ponds in the period by analyzing forty-three scenes in fifteen painting scrools. The results are as follows:
1) Forty percent of the description about garden ponds in the traditional books of gardening was observed in the painting scrools, and most of them were in the SHINDEN style gardens.
2) The ponds in temples and shrines had comparatively simple structure.
3) The ponds in residential gardens in the period were partialy influenced by and developed from the SHINDEN style gardens.
4) Three cases of the ponds in places of natural scenery were considered as ideal style in the period.
5) Through the study it was taken that they enjoyed their life in gardens through the description of boating, music playing on a boat, TURIDONO, IZUMIDONO, birds and fishes, man-made features, and plantings related to the garden ponds.
