Stephen Mansfield is a British writer and photojournalist
whose work has appeared in over 60 magazines, newspapers and
journals worldwide. He is the author of several books, including
Japan: Islands of the Floating World, Japan's Master Gardens and
Tokyo: A Biography. He currently resides in Japan, where he is a
regular book reviewer for The Japan Times. He has also become an
authority on Japanese gardens and has traveled all over Japan to
visit and photograph both celebrated and little-known gardens. He
recently designed and built a Japanese garden at his home in the
outer suburbs of Tokyo, a project that took four seasons to
complete.
Donald Richie (1924-2013), novelist, essayist, journalist,
and film scholar was born in Lima, Ohio, in 1924 but has spent most
of the last sixty years witnessing and reporting on the
transformation of Japan from postwar devastation to economic
powerhouse. He was the author of some forty books of fiction and
nonfiction, dozens of speeches and essays, and hundreds of book,
film, and arts reviews.
"This survey of the best of Japan's stone gardens may send you into
the sort of fugue state in which you wake up to find yourself
floating through the airport, boarding pass in hand." --New York
Times
"A book that will benefit both the Japanese garden enthusiast and
the Zen aficionado alike. One to be dipped into time and time again
and absorbed over time." --Diverse Japan
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