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Though it features numerous world class Japanese gardens, this beautiful, richly photographed and illustrated volume is much more than just another Japanese garden book. Marc Peter Keane, renowned author and designer takes you on a guided tour of Japanese tea gardens, from ancient times to the modern day. It's a journey that looks at how social. religious. aesthetic, and philosophical influences combined over hundreds of years to produce one of the world's most transcendent forms of landscape art.  Hardcover- 10 1/2" x 8 1.4" - 284 pages - 117 color photos & illustrations