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| The Japanese Garden |
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| Bowdoin College
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An excellent resource about Japanese gardens. Currently featuring 29 gardens (primarily "the historical gardens of Kyoto and its environs, including Nara"), the website was "designed simply 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." With additional information about the origins and key elements of the Japanese garden, this is a truly outstanding resource on the topic of Japanese gardens. Also with a bibliography, glossary, and list of web links.
Go to Museum Resource: http://learn.bowdoin.edu/japanesegardens/index.html | |
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| University of Washington, Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
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"This unit explores the private Chinese garden, the elegant paradises created by the well-to-do, especially in the Southeast. The unit includes a walk-through tour of one of the older surviving gardens of Suzhou, the Garden of the Master of Nets." A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization was prepared by University of Washington history professor Patricia Buckley Ebrey. With questions for discussion, timelines, maps, and suggested readings. Select HOME to find link to teachers' guides for all topics featured on the website.
Go to Museum Resource: http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/home/3garintr.htm | |
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| Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home |
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| Peabody Essex Museum
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"Yin Yu Tang, a late Qing dynasty merchants' house, was originally located in southeastern China. Re-erected at the Peabody Essex Museum, Yin Yu Tang is now open to visitors." This companion website to the permanent installation at the museum allows visitors to explore "this rare example of the region's renowned architecture and to learn about the daily life of the Huang family, who lived in Yin Yu Tang for over 200 years." With in-depth text, images, and diagrams organized around the topics Orientation, Construction, Ornamentation, Belongings, and Preservation. Uses Flash.
Go to Museum Resource: http://yinyutang.pem.org/ | |
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| Homes (of China's Late Imperial Period): House Architecture and Interiors |
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| University of Washington, Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
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"This unit looks at the homes people built as a way to learn more about the material circumstances of their lives and how geography affected daily life. After looking at how houses were built, it considers what was inside them." A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization was prepared by University of Washington history professor Patricia Buckley Ebrey. With questions for discussion, timelines, maps, and suggested readings. Select HOME to find link to teachers' guides for all topics featured on the website.
Go to Museum Resource: http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/home/3homintr.htm | |
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| Scholar's Library and Study |
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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With introductory overview and images (including a 360-degree panorama view) of this permanent architectural installation at the MIA of a Qing dynasty scholar's study and attached rock garden. The IN THIS ROOM section has information about and images of furniture and decorative objects in the room; the CURATOR INTERVIEW section examines aspects of the room in greater detail. There is also a link to another installation -- a reception hall dating to the early 17th century -- also with an image gallery, object descriptions, panorama view, and curator interview.
Go to Museum Resource: http://archive.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/architecture/chinese-scholars-study.cfm | |
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| Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An illustrated 28-page teacher's guide that can be downloaded in .pdf format. The guide "provides background material about gardens and nature in Chinese culture ... Also included are suggestions for topics of discussion and relevant activities for use in the classroom. This material is meant to draw students’ attention to some of the key features of the garden and to help them understand how these details can embody fundamental cultural concepts. A glossary and a list of bibliographic and other resources provide handy references."
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/learn/educators/curriculum-resources/nature-within-wa... | |
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| Chinese Gardens and Collectors' Rocks |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A brief discussion of the significance of the garden in Chinese culture. With 10 related artworks and a video clip of the Chinese Garden Court at the Metropolitan Museum.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cgrk/hd_cgrk.htm | |
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| The World of Scholars' Rocks: Gardens, Studios, and Paintings |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2000 exhibition that "features more than 30 scholars' rocks from the noted collection of the Richard Rosenblum family, ranging in size from desktop pieces to freestanding works of several feet in height. They are accompanied by about 90 paintings dating from the 11th to 20th century, drawn primarily from the Museum's collection." With images of 9 related rocks and paintings.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2000/world-of-scholars | |
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| Dr. Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden |
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| Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden
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Take an online tour of this Vancouver garden. Also read more about the garden's history, design, construction, and symbolism under "About" at top.
Go to Museum Resource: https://vancouverchinesegarden.com/ | |
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| The Margaret Grigg Nanjing Friendship Garden |
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| Missouri Botanical Garden
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An excellent online tour of the Missouri Botanical Garden's Chinese garden. Scroll to the bottom of this Introduction page to see links to four more pages about Chinese gardens in general (An Ancient Tradition; A Frame and Focus; Mountains and Water; Plants as Symbols) plus four pages about specific aspects of this Chinese garden (The Moon Gate; Tai Hu Stones; The Pavilion; The Lotus Gate). With photographs throughout.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.mobot.org/hort/tours/cgtourintro.shtml | |
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| National Bonsai and Penjing Museum |
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| The United States National Arboretum
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"The miniature masterpieces that we call bonsai and penjing are the pinnacle of gardening skill, and the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum has one of the largest collections of these timeless trees in North America. The Japanese art of bonsai, and its precursor, the Chinese art of penjing, are rooted in the traditions of Asian culture. The placement of branches, styling, and the pot all convey deep symbolism and reverence for nature." One-page historical background about the museum. Select BONSAI VIRTUAL TOUR for a 38-slide presentation that guides the visitor through the museum.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.usna.usda.gov/discover/gardens-collections/national-bonsai-penjing-... | |
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| The Astor Chinese Garden Court |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A replica of a Ming dynasty home garden from Suzhou, China, recreated by artisans from China. The design of the museum's Chinese garden is "based on a small courtyard within a scholar's garden in the city of Suzhou, China, called Wang Shi Yuan, the Garden of the Master of the Fishing Nets.The first permanent cultural exchange between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China, the installation was completed in 1981. Conceived by museum trustee Brooke Astor, the courtyard was created and assembled by expert craftsmen from China using traditional methods, materials and hand tools." See photo gallery as well as lesson plan.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78870 | |
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| Boston Children’s Museum |
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| Boston Children’s Museum
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The Japanese House exhibit, also called Kyo no Machiya, at Boston Children’s Museum is a well-preserved machiya, a traditional urban house from Kyoto, Japan. It was a gift from the city of Kyoto to the city of Boston to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their Sister Cities Relationship in 1979. This machiya was originally built in the late 1800s and was once home to a silk merchant family in Kyoto’s Nishijin neighborhood, long famous for its silk weaving.
Go to Museum Resource: https://japanesehouse.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/virtual-tour | |
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| Cultivating Enlightenment: The Manifold Meaning of Japanese Zen Gardens |
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| Education About Asia
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An excellent visual and narrative introduction to Japanese Zen, and perhaps its most iconic symbols. While Zen gardens have been a fixture of Japanese aesthetics since the Muromachi Period (1336–1573), the purposes and meanings of these austere landscapes have been far less fixed, and indeed have changed somewhat since their first appearance as places for meditation in the Zen temples of medieval Japan. ...The image of the Zen garden, however,... “speaks” for itself, and provides us with a representation of spiritual quality that is best experienced rather than discursively argued. This is only appropriate since the transmission of Zen wisdom is supposed to be nonverbal. With PDF download.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/cultivating-enlightenmen... | |
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| Garden of the Phoenix (Chicago’s Jackson Park) |
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| Garden of the Phoenix (Chicago’s Jackson Park)
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In Chicago's Jackson Park, our future is growing from the past. The new Garden of the Phoenix symbolizes Japan and the U.S.'s 160-year story.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.gardenofthephoenix.org/ | |
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| Japanese Friendship Garden of San Diego: Online Tour |
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| Japanese Friendship Garden of San Diego
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"The [San Diego] Japanese Friendship Garden is named 'San-Kei-En' meaning 'three scene garden' -- Water, Pastoral and Mountain. San-Kei-En is an expression of the ties between the people of San Diego and Yokohama and blends the two cultures to create a unique experience. The Garden was named in honor of the San-Kei-En Garden in Yokohama." A brief tour of the garden and the sukiya style Exhibit House, with photographs throughout.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.niwa.org/ | |
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| The Japanese Garden: Seiwa-en |
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| Missouri Botanical Garden
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An excellent online tour of the Missouri Botanical Garden's Japanese garden. Scroll to the bottom of this Introduction page to see 25 additional pages introducing each aspect of the garden, from the Entrance (#1) and Blue Boulder Cascade (#2) to the Kasuga Lantern (#24) and Stone Boat Basin (#25). With photographs throughout.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.mobot.org/hort/gardens/japanese/intro/index.shtml | |
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| The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens: Garden Guide |
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| The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
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An introduction to the Japanese gardens at the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach, Florida -- "a series of six diverse gardens, each inspired by a different historical period and type of Japanese garden." Download the GARDEN GUIDE (.pdf) at the top of the page or select from the menu at the top left for more in-depth information about the gardens, a statement from the gardens' designer, and a Bonsai exhibit (with photographs). Also see the EDUCATION section for information about the Japanese Tea Ceremony.
Go to Museum Resource: https://morikami.org/roji-en/#tab-1 | |
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| Nitobe Memorial Garden |
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| University of British Columbia Botanical Garden
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Garden honoring the memory of Inazo Nitobe (1862-1933), "agriculturalist, scholar, Quaker, philosopher, statesman, educator ... [who] devoted much of his life to promoting trust and understanding between the United States and Japan.] See the FOR THE SCHOLAR section for information about Inazo Nitobe, the tea house of the Nitobe Garden, the symbolism of lanterns like the ones seen at the Nitobe garden, and more.
Go to Museum Resource: https://botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/visit/nitobe-memorial-garden/ | |
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| Portland Japanese Garden: Guide to the Gardens |
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| Portland Japanese Garden
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Guide to the five distinct garden styles represented at the Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon: 1) Flat Garden; 2) Strolling Pond Garden; 3) Tea Garden; 4) Natural Garden; 5) Sand and Stone Garden. Brief text and a small photograph under each style section, plus a general history of the gardens (under BACKGROUND). Also see the ARTICLES section for texts about Japanese culture.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.japanesegarden.com/gardens/ | |
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| Shofuso, Japanese House and Garden: Historical Narrative |
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| Shofuso, Japanese House and Garden
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An in-depth history of Shofuso, a traditional Shoin-zukuri Japanese house in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. See Chapter 9 for description of the Shoin style. Also see the PHOTO GALLERY and VIRTUAL TOUR sections for photographs of the house and gardens.
Go to Museum Resource: http://japanphilly.org/shofuso/ | |
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| Temple, Palace, Scholar’s House: Three Settings of Traditional Korean Culture [PDF] |
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| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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This packet introduces teachers and other readers to several traditional settings of Korean culture: Buddhist temples, palaces, and scholar’s houses, as well as Confucian academies where scholars were trained. These settings provide a framework or backdrop for many of the historical art objects on display at the museum.
Go to Museum Resource: https://education.asianart.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/09/Temple-Palace... | |
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