The Japanese Tea Garden

"When Marc Peter Keane describes, with poetry and erudition, the experience of the Japanese garden today, he has no peer." —Leonard Koren, author of Wabi-Sabi "Marc Peter Keane is the undisputed American master of Japanese garden scholars. . . . Since tea gardens have had a major impact on the design of Japanese gardens in general, this book is a necessary addition to the library of any serious student. The rest of us will enter with humility —mindful of the small door through which one must crawl into the tea room—and sip slowly." —New York Times Sunday Book Review "Impeccably written, erudite without being burdensomely intellectual, what sets Keane’s beautifully measured and considered prose style apart from other garden writers is the carefully created mood of his text, which aspires at times to verbalized contemplation. . . . Likely to remain the standard work on the subject for a very long time to come" —Stephen Mansfield, Kyoto Journal "An incredibly beautiful and extremely detailed look at one of the world's most transcendent landscape arts." —The Avant Gardener (NY) "For anyone with a serious interest in Japanese gardens this is an essential purchase." —Graham Hardman , Japanese Garden Society (UK) "A thoroughly engaging, insightful observer." —Booklist