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The Japanese Garden: Books Available in Billington Library



Cave, Philip SB458.C38
Creating Japanese Gardens Boston: Tuttle, 1996
 
Chan, Peter SB458.C43
Creating a Japanese Garden New York: Sterling, 2003
 
Chesshire, Charles SB458 .C54
A Practical Guide To Japanese Gardening: From Design Options and Materials to Planting Techniques and Decorative Features London: Lorenz Books, 2008
 
Davidson, A.K. SB458.D38
The Art of Zen Gardens: a Guide to their Creation and Enjoyment Angeles: Tarcher, 1983
 
Egan, Kieran SB458.E36
Building my Zen Garden Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000
 
Goto, Seiko SB458.G68
The Japanese Garden: Gateway to the Human Spirit New York: Lang, 2003
 
Gustafson, Herb L. SB458.G87
The Art of Japanese Gardens: Designing & Making your own Peaceful Space New York: Sterling, 1999
 
Harte, Sunniva SB458.H36
Zen Gardening New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1999
 
Hendy, Jenny SB458.H43
Zen In Your Garden Boston: Tuttle, 2001
 
Hibi, Sadao SB458.H53
Infinite Spaces: the Art and Wisdom of the Japanese Garden Boston: Tuttle, 2000
 
Kawaguchi, Yoko SB458.K39
Serene Gardens: Creating Japanese Design and Detail in the Western Garden North Pomfert, VT: Trafalgar Square, 2000
 
Mehta, Geeta K SB458 .M44
Japanese Gardens: Tranquility, Simplicity, Harmony Rutland: Tuttle, 2008
 
Nitschke, Gunter SB458.N5813
Japanese Gardens: Right Angle and Natural Form Köln: Taschen, 1993
 
Sawano, Takashi SB458.S28
Creating Your Own Japanese Garden New York: Kodansha America, 1999
 
Young, David Earl SB466.J3 Y699
The Art of the Japanese Garden North Clarendon, VT, 2005
 

Some recommended Mystery Novels Featuring Japanese-American Gardener Mas Harai

    California author Naomi Hirahara has created a series of page-turning crime novels featuring an aging Japanese-American gardener Mas Harai. Most of the novels' plots turn on the history of the Japanese-American community and World War II. While all of the novels speak of gardening, the second in the series, The Gasa-Gasa girl, involves the restoration of a traditional Japanese garden in New York City. Hirahara's novels in Billing ton Library include:

     

Hirahara, Naomi PS3608.I76 S68
The Summer of the Big Bachi New York: Dell, 2004
What happened fifty years ago during the destruction of Hiroshima during World War II becomes crucial to a Japanese family. The key to the knowledge is held by an aging Japanese American gardener in Los Angeles, Despite his wish to remain uninvolved, he finds himself the reluctant detective as old scores are paid back and old wrongs righted.
 
Hirahara, Naomi PS3608.I76 G37
The Gasa-Gasa Girl New York: Dell, 2005
Harai is called upon to help his American son-in-law restore the traditional Japanese garden at a New York mansion. Unfortunately the body of the current owner, a Japanese financier, is discovered precipitating discoveries of past wrongs in the Japanese-American community.
 
Hirahara, Naomi PS3608.I76 S63
The Snakeskin Shamisen New York: Dell, 2006
An heirloom shamisen from prewar Okinawa is the center of a plot involving the murder of high stakes gambler. Of course, Mas Harai reluctantly investigates the crime that leads back several generations.
 
 
 
 
Andrea Kempf, created March 10, 2009, updated November 11, 2009 Return to Literature Guides Index