"Nature Methodiz'd": Landscape gardening à la japonaise

• Autores: B. D. H. Miller
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 3, Nº 1, 1983, págs. 64-68
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • William Kent, wrote Horace Walpole, "painter enough to taste the charms of landscape... leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden", in which he sowed the seed of the misnamed jardin anglo-chinois. The Chinese and Japanese themselves, at once landscape painters and gardeners, had long seen that a garden was apparently all nature; "in the Oriental garden it is nature and not the gardener which does the creating". In the Japanese garden nature and gardener have joined forces, to achieve a fusion of nature and art in which it would be hard to say where one ends and the other begins. Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716), the "scientific discoverer" of Japan, reported