Tenryu-ji

Norris Brock Johnson is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was a Fulbright Lecturer at Waseda University and University of Tokyo, Komaba. Professor Johnson has been researching, teaching, and writing about the temple gardens of Japan for over twenty years.

"Whether you experience Tenryu-ji in person or through the pages of this book, you will learn to understand the enduring appeal of Japanese gardens and will take away a lot more than photographic images and quickly fading memories. You will have a connection with the garden that will stay with you until your next visit- or your first." - The New York Journal of Books "[Norris Brock Johnson is] the perfect guide, describing Tenryu-ji with intellectual conciseness and tenderness, for a site that has clearly come to represent more than just a sacred garden."--The Japan Times

• The Pond in the Garden 000Acknowledgments 000Part I: Land, Landscape, and the Spirit of Place 0001Mountains, Water, and Fragrant Trees 000 2Death, Dream, and the Genesis of a Temple 000 3Clouds of Flowers Preserve the Way 000 Part II: A Garden in Green Shade 0004A Pond of Shadow and Shimmering Stones 0005Footprints in the Sky 6Settling Flowers of Ice 7Bridge to Buddha-Nature 0008Sitting in the Garden 0009Anchors Along the Journey 000 10The Dragon Gate 000Part III: Garden as Life and Spirit 00011A Walk to the Garden 00012Stones and Life: Sweet to See 00013Just As Before 000Notes 000Bibliography 000Index 000