The World-Wide Web Virtual Library
05 Jun 2001
The Japanese Garden: Zen Gardens
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA.
Self-description:
"This web site is dedicated to the Japanese garden, and more specifically to the
historic gardens of Kyoto and its environs. It is designed to provide the
visitor with an opportunity to visit each garden, to move through or around it,
to experience it through the medium of high-quality color images, and to learn
something of its history. The presentation of each garden will include a plan
that will help the visitor locate the various positions from which photographs
were taken, but one may also make the tour by simply clicking on the 'next'
button on each page."
Site contents: Gardens (introduction to and history of): Byodo-in,
Chishaku-in, Daikaku-ji, Daisen-in, Ginkaku-ji, Kaju-ji, Katsura,
Kinkaku-ji, Nijo, Ryoan-ji, Ryogen-in, Saiho-ji, Sento Palace,
Shoseien, Shugaku-in, Taizo-in, Tenryu-ji; Origins [Early Japanese
Gardens: The Asuka, Nara, and Heian Periods]; Elements [of Zen garden
composition - Bridges: hashi, Flowers: hana, Islands: shima, Sand:
suna, Stones: ishi/iwakura, Trees: ki, Water: mizu, Waterfalls: taki];
Bibliography; Glossary; Links [to a handful of select Web sites];
Comments; Search; Help; Copyright & Credits.
[This rich (and RAM-intensive!), informed and most elegant site can be
viewed in two modes: (a) simple web browser; (b) web browser +
multimedia plug-ins. The site, based on 20 years of research by Prof.
Clifton C. Olds, documents and annotates both current composition of
the gardens as well as, in some cases, plausible reconstructions of
their earlier designs - ed.]
URL http://academic.bowdoin.edu/zen/
Link reported by: Clifton C. Olds (colds@bowdoin.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential