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The Flowers and Gardens of Japan Agents '- ^'':%if^f CCmNELL UNIVERSiT) LIBRARIES ITHACA, N. Y. i4S . \ t Fii.e Arti Library 'i'U^y Hall 3 1924 051 000 143 DOES f,'OT CIRCULATE Cornell University Library The original of tinis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924051000143 — sr THE SAME ARTIST THE ITALIAN LAKES Painted by Ella Du Cane Described by Richard Bagot Square demy 8vo, bound in doth gilt top Price zos. net Containing ^^ full-page Illustrations in Colour "Sucli pictures interpret the romantic appeal of the scenery in a manner which is next to impossible to any mere pen other than that of Ruskin. But the book, we make haste to add, is fascinating all the way through, for Mr. Bagot has quick eyes for the picturesque, and writes with admirable restraint in the romantic mood." —Standard, " Mr. Bagot's 'descriptions will give the reader who has never seen this lovely part of Europe a just and vivid idea of its beauties, while Miss Du Cane's work does the same for him by means of another and a beautiful medium. Her pictures are charming, and the reproduction would seem to be perfect." The World. A. & C. BLACK SoHO Square, London, W. THE FLOWERS AND GARDENS OF JAPAN AGENTS America . The Macmillan Company 64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, New York Australasia The Oxford University Press, Melbourne Canada . The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd. 27 Richmond Street West, Toronto India . Macmillan & Company, Ltd. Macmillan Building, Bombay 309 Bow Bazaar Street, Calcittta » f>. m ;^^* »."^ -.r'^U -i "•' * ^t • '• - 4. WISTARIA, KYOMIDZU THE FLOWERS AND GARDENS OF JAPAN PAINTED BY ELLA DU CANE DESCRIBED BY FLORENCE DU CANE PUBLISHED BY . Aff SOHO SQUARE ADAM fif CHARLES^// LONDON • W. BLACK . jg^^ MCMVIII . PREFACE An apology is due to the reader for adding this volume to the long list of books already written on Japan ; but, being a lover of flowers myself, I found there was no book giving a short account of the flora of the country which is so often called the Land of Flowers. Hence my excuse for offering these pages, either to those who may be intending to visit, or to those who may wish to recall the memories of a sojourn in the Land of the Rising Sun. The book does not pretend to furnish a complete list of all the flowers to be found in the country, but rather to give a description of those which are most remarkable for their beauty and profusion, and which are most closely associated with Japan. The pages on landscape gardening have been con- densed, partly owing to want of space, and also vi FLOWERS AND GARDENS OF JAPAN because I felt that those who take a real and thorough interest in the subject have Mr. Conder's admirable volumes on "Landscape Gardening in Japan" to help them in the study of the most complicated form of gardening in the world. Being debarred, through lack of sufficient knowledge of the language, from availing myself of original works in Japanese, I have drawn much informa- tion from Mr. Conder's works, and from those of other foreigners ; but I wish gratefully to acknow- ledge the help I received from Mr. Y. Noguchi, who provided me with the flower legends and fairy tales, which are household words in every Japanese home. FLORENCE DU CANE. CONTENTS CHAP, PAGE 1. Landscape Gardening ...... 1 2. Stones—Garden Ornaments and Fences . 19 3. Landscape Gardens ...... 38 4. Nursery Gardens—Dwarf Trees and Hachi-niwa 55 5. Temple Gardens 72 6. Summer Flowers ....... 87 7. Plum Blossom ........ 104 8. Peach Blossom . .119 9. Cherry Blossom 127 10. Wistaria and PiEONY 146 11. Azaleas l6l 12. The Iris l69 13. The Morning Glory 181 14. The Lotus 186 15. The Chrysanthemum 197 16. The Maple Leaves 214 17. The Bamboo 223 18. The Pine-Tree 236 vu LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACIBTG PAGE 1. Wistaria, Kyomidzu . Frontispiece 2. Wistaria in a Kyoto Garden 4 3. The Storks 12 4. Azaleas in a Kyoto Garden 22 5. Azaleas, Kyoto 28 6. Tiger Lilies 34 7. An Old Garden 40 8. Satake Garden, Tokyo 42 9. A Tokyo Garden 46 10. A Landscape Garden 52 11. The Old Wistaria . 60 12. At Kitano Tenjin 72 13. The Drooping Cherry 74 14. A Shrine at Kyomidzu 78 15. White Cherry at Kitano . 80 16. Cherry Blossom, Chion-in Temple 84 17. The Kobai Plum Blossom 92 18. Lilium Auratum 19. Lilies on the Rocks, Atami 98 20. An Hydrangea Bush 100 21. Viewing the Plum Blossoms 104 22. The Gate of the Plum Garden 106 ix X FLOWERS & GARDENS OF JAPAN CHAPTER I LANDSCAPE GARDENING It is safe to assert that no other country has such a distinctive form of landscape gardening as Japan. In English, French, Italian, and Dutch gardens, however original in their way, there are certain things they seem all to possess in common : terraces, which originally belonged to Italian gardens, were soon introduced into France ; clipped trees, which were a distinctive feature of Dutch gardens, were copied by the English ; the fashion of decorating gardens with flights of stone steps, balustrades, fountains, and statues at one time spread from Italy throughout Europe ; and possibly the over-decora- tion of gardens led to a change in taste in England and a return to a more natural style. The gardens of China and Japan have remained unique ; the Eastern style of gardening has never spread to any 2 FLOWERS AND GARDENS OF JAPAN other country, nor is it ever likely to ; for, just as no Western artist will ever paint in the same manner as an Oriental artist because his whole artistic sense is different, so no Western gardener could ever hope to construct a garden representing a portion of the natural scenery of Japan—which is the aim and object of every good Japanese landscape garden, however small—because, however long he might study the original scene, he would never arrive at the Japanese conception of it, or realise what it conveyed to the mind of a Japanese. Their art of gardening was originally borrowed from the Chinese, who appear to have been the first to con- struct miniature mountains, and to bring water from a distance to feed miniature water-falls and mountain torrents. They even went so far as, in one enclosure, to represent separate scenes for different seasons of the year, and different hours of the day, but to the Japanese belongs the honour of having perfected the art of landscape gardening. It is not my intention to weary the reader with technical information on the subject, which he will find admirably explained in Mr. Conder's volume on Landscape Gardening in Japan, but an out- line of some of the theories and rules which guide LANDSCAPE GARDENING 3 the Japanese gardener will help us to appreciate his work and give an additional interest to the hours spent in these refreshing retreats from the outer world. ^ The designer of a good landscape garden has to be guided by many things. A scene must be chosen suited to the size of the ground and the house, and its natural surroundings ; and the Japanese garden being above all a spot for secluded leisure and meditation, the temperament, sentiment, and even the occupation of the owner are brought into consideration. Their conception of the expression of nature is governed in its execution by endless aesthetic rules ; considerations of scale, proportion, unity, and balance, in fact all that tends to artistic harmony, must be considered, so as to preserve the perfect balance of the picture, and any neglect would destroy that feeling of repose which is so essential in the landscape garden. When we realise that the art has occupied the minds of poets, sages, and philosophers, it is not to be wondered at that something more than the simple representation of natural views has entered into the spirit of their schemes, which attain to poetical conceptions ; and a garden may be designed to suggest definite ideas and associations, in fact ; 4 FLOWERS AND GARDENS OF JAPAN the whole art is enshrouded by quaint aesthetic principles, and it is difficult for the Western mind to unravel the endless laws and theories by which it is governed. In gardens which cover a larger area the scheme must necessarily be very different from that required for the making of a tiny garden, only some few yards square, but the materials used will be the same only the stone bridges and garden ornaments will all be in proportion to the size of the garden, for the rule of proportion is perhaps the most important of all, I visited a garden which was being enlarged by the addition of a hill and the suggestion of mountain forests, to give the impression of unknown limits. The owner explained that as he had en- larged his house it was therefore necessary at the same time to enlarge his garden. A landscape garden may be of any size, from the miniature scenes, representing pigmy groves, and mossy precipices, with lilliputian torrents of white sand, compressed into the area of a china dish, to the vast gardens with their broad sheets of water and majestic trees which surrounded the Daimyo castles of old or the Imperial palaces of to-day ; but the sense of truf.^proportion must bf p^idiy adhereii' to. » Large rocks and boulders are out of WISTARIA IN A KYOTO GARDEN '^-\- ' •'\\-/--\x^ LANDSCAPE GARDENING 5 place in a small garden, and small stones in a large garden would be equally unsuitable.
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