A Study on the Roles of Versification in Landscape Experience

Abstract

The japanese and chinese poetry composed in japanese style-garden are assumed to be an essential tool in suggesting a manner of appreciating sights and in making mental correlation between the elements of scenery. In this sense, it is not too much to say that versification in garden constitutes a part of an important gerdening work besides formative arrangement of visual objects.
As a result of consideration on the implications of versification at landscape experiences through the investigation of old records about gardens, it was found that an act of versification in japanese style-gardens could be deemed as one kind of technique of landscape management by linguistic or semiotic tool.