Sakuteiki

Sakuteiki (作庭記; literally, Records of Garden Making) is the oldest published Japanese text on garden-making. It was written in the mid-to-late 11th century. Various translations in English and French exist.


History

Sakuteiki is considered the oldest garden planning book. It is believed to be the work of Tachibana Toshitsuna.

During the Kamakura period, it was referred to as the Senzai Hisshō (Secret Selection on Gardens). In the Edo period, it became known as Sakuteiki.

Overview

Sakuteiki is a record of the styles of gardening in the Heian period. It describes five styles of gardening, including

References

  1. ↑ Takei, Jiro et al. (2001). Sakuteiki Visions of the Japanese Garden: A Modern Translation of Japan's Gardening Classic, p. 3 n1.
  2. ↑ See the review in English by Wybe Kuitert of various Sakuteiki translations in Western languages: De la Creation des Jardins: Traduction du Sakutei-ki by Michel Vieillard-Baron. in Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 53, No. 2, Summer 1998, Pages 292-294 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2385689
  3. ↑ Tanaka, Tan. (1992). "Early Japanese Horticultural Treatises and Pure Land Buddhist Style: Sakuteki and Its Background in Ancient Japan and China" in Garden History: Issues, Approaches, Methods (John Dixon Hunt, ed.), p. 79.
  4. ↑ Kuitert, Wybe. (2002). Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art, p. 30-52.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Takei, p. 162.