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Turning Gardens in Japan into Japanese Gardens: Nation, Nature, Heritage, and Modernity since the 1890s book cover

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Turning Gardens in Japan into Japanese Gardens Nation, Nature, Heritage, and Modernity since the 1890s

By Christian Tagsold Copyright 2025
252 Pages
by Routledge

In the mid nineteenth century, as Japan rapidly modernized, garden building declined in popularity. Only in the late nineteenth century did a new class of political and business leaders revive interest in horticulture, seeking garden designs that broke away from established patterns. As a result, these innovative gardens were largely overlooked by early Japanese garden historians and excluded from... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1. Defining Gardens in/for Japan - From the Edo Period to the Mid-Meiji Period, Chapter 2. Building New Gardens - Meiji and Taish. Period, Chapter 3. Appreciating New Japanese Gardens in the West - Late Meiji to Early Showa Period, Chapter 4. The Nation and Japanese Gardens - Taisho Period to End of WWII, Chapter 5. The Garden in Our Backyard - The Postwar Decades, Chapter 6. Gardens as National Heritage between Scholars and Bureaucrats - From the Postwar Era to the Heisei Period, Chapter 7. Turning Gardens into Attractions - The Present Landscape, Chapter 8. A Past Modernity as Heritage? Conclusion, Bibliography.

Biography

Christian Tagsold is a Professor and Researcher in the Department of Modern Japanese Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Since 2006, he has focused his research on Japanese gardens in Japan, Europe, and the United States. His habilitation thesis on the influence of Japanese gardens in the West earned him the JaDe Award from the Foundation for the Promotion of Japanese-German Scientific and Cultural Relations in 2012. His book, Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens and the West (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), received the 2019 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum. His further research interests include sports and the Olympics in Japan and the Japanese diaspora in Europe.

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