Zen Garden Design by Mira Locher

Author:Mira Locher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

For the composition called Yuu, or “Play,” Masuno wanted to express playfulness and a condition in which the mind is free from complex thoughts and finds an invigorating peaceful state.

Embodying the asymmetry of nature in contrast to the rigid geometry of the city, the low rock sculpture set into ground cover features a carved perfect circle holding a brightly flowering plant.

DESIGN PRINCIPLE

ASYMMETRY 不均斉 fukinseii

Recognized by two scholars of Zen aesthetics, Shinichi Hisamatsu in Zen and Fine Arts (1971) and Daisetz T. Suzuki in Zen and Japanese Culture (1959), as a primary characteristic of Japanese aesthetics, asymmetry is clearly expressed in Zen garden compositions. Related to the concept of incompleteness, or fukanzen, asymmetry suggests movement and effects an understanding of the beauty of the organic irregularity of the natural world.

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