The Garden of Asia
Impressions from Japan
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
- Author: Reginald John Farrer
- Date Published: October 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108037211
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Reginald J. Farrer (1880–1920) was a traveller and plant collector who was an important influence on horticultural style in England. In 1902 he embarked on an expedition to Asia, where he was inspired by the rock gardens of Tokyo, Yokohama and Beijing, and discovered plant species such as Clematis macropetala, and the eponymous Geranium farreri and Viburnum farreri, which are now common in European gardens. In his first book, published in 1904, he records his experiences in Japan and other Asian countries, vividly recounting his impressions of, and his passion for, eastern landscape, terrain, plantations, forestry and flora, of which the aesthetic characteristics became central to the rockeries and shrubberies he created on his return home. Farrer died while on an expedition at the early age of forty, but the legacy of his highly influential writings and his wide-ranging plant introductions remains significant today.
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- Date Published: October 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108037211
- length: 314 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Dai Nipon Banzai
2. The metropolis of Japan
3. The gardens of Tokio
4. The greater gardens
5. Housekeeping
6. Inage: a sketch from Japan
7. Shops and shopping
8. Korea
9. Impressions round Peking
10. Nikko, Kekko
11. Natai-San
12. The Lady Little Willow Tree
13. Shiba-no-tera
14. Asakusa-no-Tera
15. Uyeno-no-tera
16. Northward
17. The Hokkaido
18. Matsushima
19. Yoshiwara
20. The sphinx in Japan
21. Matsuri
22. The Holy One of Kamakura
23. Enoshima
24. Ikao and Karuizawa
25. The circuit of the Holy One
26. Miyanoshita, Hakoné, Atami
27. The passing of days
28. Sayonara.
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