Japanese Gardens: Tranquility, Simplicity, Harmony Hardcover – Illustrated, November 15, 2008

This is not much more than a coffee table book. Beautiful photographs.History of gardens is over simplified. Writing strives to be poetic, falling short

There isn't a ton of text in this book, but what's there is perfect. Between the pictures and the text, the book really decodes what makes a Japanese garden a Japanese garden. It also tells the story behind many of the elements in traditional Japanese gardens, and the photos are simply drop-dead gorgeous. It gave me lots of ideas for my blank-slate backyard, and tons of inspiration to get started on my own Japanese garden.

a few good ideas

PERFECT

Beautiful book! A great gift.

good read

Beautiful but limited to a few gardens

The kindle edition has absolute terrible photo quality. and the photos are the book. it's a shame. not worth the money on kindle.

A review of 23 different gardens - good that they spread the choice somewhat wider than usualUsual high spec quality of any Tuttle book - would have been nice to have maps of the garden layoutsIf I had a criticism its that this is a work by 3 people and it seems to lack a guiding theme but you could do a lot worse as a starter book on Japanese Gardens

I bought this book to get some ideas for a Japanese style garden I’m planning. I wasn’t interested in the history of Japanese designs...until I read this! Well written with just enough detail to allow the reader to understand the elements of the different types of Japanese gardens. The pictures a beautiful and I love the way full pages are given over to them. Looks great, reads well. Go on buy it!

Technical but informative. Good illustrations

Superb book with beautiful photos. Really enjoy looking at this book and being inspired by it.

very good book . very good service by wordery, very prompt delivery time, well satisfied with everything . would definitely use again