SAKUTEIKI: Visions of the Japanese Garden--A Modern Translation of Japan's Gardening Classic

Written nearly 1,000 years ago, the Sakuteiki is not only the oldest surviving treatise on Japanese gardening, but the world's oldest gardening tome. It contains the first systematic record of the Heian-era gardening style, garden-building techniques, and philosophical discussions of the four central threads of allegorical meaning. Well illustrated, some in color.