SECRETS TO SHARE
BY KYNA RUBIN
Decoding Japanese garden design one stone at a time.
FROM THE FEBRUARY 2018 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.
?Squat and move it counterclockwise, clockwise, repeat, and repeat again,? Tomohiko Muto says as he motions to the American landscape professionals gamely trying to move a chunk of Columbia River Gorge basalt. The centerpiece rock they?ve selected for their project forms a natural water basin, the result of a depression created at the break point of columnar basalt. The stone?s heft eventually requires a dolly.
Under the guidance of Muto and other instructors from Japan, the students are engaging in tactile learning at a new program developed, in the main, by Sadafumi Uchiyama, ASLA, the curator at the Portland Japanese Garden (PJG) in Portland, Oregon. Like many of his predecessors in Japan, Uchiyama hews to tradition in the Japanese gardens he creates. But his latest endeavor reveals an iconoclastic bent. Through an unusual seminar first offered this past summer as part of the PJG?s new International Japanese Garden Training Center, he hopes to debunk the long-held myth that ?90 percent of Japanese gardening is secret, unteachable,? he says. ?I dispute that.?
Instructor Kazuo Mitsuhashi (left) helping participants select stone for their projects. Photo by Jonathan Ley.
Uchiyama is a third-generation gardener. He studied with his grandfather, father, and uncles in Japan, as the craft is not taught in schools or universities. But at age 18, rat...
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