100 JAPANESE GARDENS

A super compact and colourful gallery of 100 of the finest gardens throughout Japan including Kyoto and Tokyo and many lesser known but equally stunning landscapes in less visited parts of the country. There are gardens from the islands of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu as well as sub-arctic Hokkaido and semi-tropical Okinawa. Rocks, tea houses, cool water gurgling in stone basins, azalea bushes, ponds and water plants, lanterns, geometric stone arrangements, old timber gates, moss-covered pagoda, sorihashi or bow bridges with their curved design and often painted bright red, shoji sliding paper doors, historical artifacts hidden in the greenery, stone bridges, verdant islands surrounded by water currents, assertive rock designs and of course the scarlet and orange of autumn leaves and maple trees , captured in hundreds of beautiful colour photographs. Includes maps and for each hotel or temple or garden, the location full address opening hours and theme if any and name in both English and Japanese. 240 compact pages in softback.