New video – Gyokusen-en
A new video is now on the e-learning Platform of JAPANESE GARDEN INSTITUTE, the Gyokusen-en garden, a stunning and very old tea garden, located in Kana...
Tag: refinement
Gardens in Japan – when refinement is lost in favor of bad taste…
For several years, from few isolated cases, I have to deplore a situation in Japan that spreads now like wildfi...
Création, entretien et astuces pour mon jardin japonais/Traditions and culture of Japan/Testimony of gardeners
Chabana 茶花
The art of provoking emotion in front of the simple beauty, natural, even raw. To succeed in generating elegance...
Creation, maintenance and tips for my Japanese garden/Techniques of niwaki/Japanese tools for gardening/Traditions and culture of Japan/Testimony of gardeners
Japanese gardens – Stop the cliché !
The West, in successive waves, regularly felt a pronounced passion for the art of Japanese gardens. This is easi...
Machiya and tsuboniwa…
In purist that I am, passionate lover of authenticity, this short video is exceptional for me ! In very little ...
Japan 2015 – Day 1
After many adventures on my flight which do not have much interest, finally here I am in Kyoto. 17° already at ...
Western and reductionist view of the Japanese garden
The Japanese garden is not only a raked gravel area, a basin, a lantern and a pruned tree ! What wrong vision, l...