1986 Volume 50 Issue 2 Pages 77-88
Once a garden is created, it will gradually get the relationship with the outside world-obtainning the sociality. It is the viewing activities that makes a garden involve with the outside area.“SHAKKEI-borrowed scenery”, one of the characteristics of Japanese garden, should be considered as the special technique of landscape involvement. It is the technique which makes inside landscape “nothing” and therefore gains main landscape outside in the garden view. Japanese attitude toward the nature is considered the basis for the technique, and the attitude can be classified into three stages;(1) Creating landscape, (2) Developing landscape, and (3) Borrowed landscape (scenery). The landscape structure of borrowed scenery gardens is studied and confirmed in this paper. It is considered that the technique of borrowed scenery makes the best use of the nature by means of having the inside garden area “nothing”, and that the technique represents Japanese view of nature.
