Japanese Gardens And The Garden

When I first look at Hiroshige’s Plum Garden at Kameido, 1857, I see a grove of flowering trees, with a fence in the background to keep visitors off the lush green grass. The main focal point of this photo is the large tree branch in the foreground. This branch has several offshoots from it with dainty white flowers. Looking past this I see several other trees in the background, all with flowers blooming on them, but none with leaves. In the farthest background, there is a metal fence that is separating several people from the garden of trees. There is also a partial shack in the background on the far most right-hand side of the picture. I also see what appears to be the back of a sign, mostly hidden, in the upper left corner of the foreground. It appears to be sunset during the painting, with the horizon lighter and the higher sky a red color. There are several blocks of oriental writings, a red rectangle in the lower left corner over the body of the tree branch; then two in the top right corner in the sky, one green square and

Characters overcome what life brings them and finding meaning in the things that they have in The Samurai's Garden by Tsukiyama. Stephan who experiences this watches as Matsu and Sachi work in their gardens. The gardens represent their gardener’s soul because they nurture and dictate everything that happens within the gardens walls.

In the book “The Samurai’s Garden” by Gail Tsukiyama, a common occurrence that appears in the book is comparisons of a certain character to an Samurai. Since even the title refers to Samurai it leaves the reader wondering, “Who is the real Samurai?” The book gives a lot of evidence for people to think that different characters could be the Samurai. The characters that people mainly think are the “real” Samurai are the main three characters, Stephen, Matsu, and Sachi. All of them carry traits of a Samurai, but at the same time there’s plenty of things to disprove most of them as being the Samurai. In the book Sachi does overcome a tragedy in her life that a lot of people would struggle with but

The role of gardens play a much more important role in Japan than here in the United States. This is due primarily to the fact the Japanese garden embodies native values, cultural beliefs and religious principles. Perhaps this is why there is no one prototype for the Japanese garden, just as there is no one native philosophy or aesthetic. In this way, similar to other forms of Japanese art, landscape design is constantly evolving due to exposure to outside influences, mainly Chinese, that effect not only changing aesthetic tastes but also the values of patrons. In observing a Japanese garden, it is important to remember that the line between the garden and the landscape that surrounds it is not separate. Instead,

Gardening has been regarded as a prevalent feature for better and healthier life in the UK after World War II. The Blossoms Garden Centre (BGC) was established in Glasgow in the mid 1960’s as a small family-based company with good reputation, which focused on producing extensive supplies of garden plants, tools, and chemicals (PMM, 2016). However, in order to remain its competitiveness, Blossoms has expanded their industry and developed three operating divisions, such as sales, cafeteria and the Hire Branch (Ibid, 2016). This has led to certain management problems, namely, customers’ service, internal relationship management, competitive priorities and declining profits. This essay aims to identify problems of the BGC and propose solutions that are associated with management of the business. Firstly, it will demonstrate situations and problems related to poor customer services and reduced profits. Secondly, this essay will put forward strategies to develop the company. Finally, it will evaluate methods to Blossoms that had done and recommends suitable solutions.

Many families in today’s society struggle to make ends meet periodically. However, many families live at or below the poverty line and struggle to provide basic needs for themselves on a regular basis. Even though programs such as Supplemental Food Assistance Program (SNAP) and Women, Infants, Children (WIC) are in place to assist these families, most families still have a gap in the budget to provide food consistently for an entire month. Many communities have implemented community gardens to help bridge the gap. In addition to easing the financial burden of this group in the community, it has also been shown to improve overall physical and emotional health (Hale, Knapp, Barwell, Buchenau,

The origin of Ikebana can be traced back to the sixth century during the Asuka period of Japan, when Buddhism was introduced to the Japanese (Stalker, 2017). The inspiration of Ikebana was from the Buddhist worship ritual of offering flowers to the spirits of the dead. The development of Ikebana was evolved from arranging flowers for the Buddhist altar as part of religious rituals (TwWiki, 2017), to becoming one of the most distinctive Japanese cultural art expressions. These researching suggested the practice of Ikebana is a combination of two Japanese primary religious belief system, Buddhism and Shito, where both beliefs have close relationships with nature, furthermore, the main feature defining Shito is Kami, the spirits that perceived in the natural world, these beliefs echo how Ikebana using living flora materials to characterize the living.

The idea of separation has affected all of us at one point. The Samurai's’ Garden by Gail Tsukiyama is about a young adult named Stephen who is staying in Tarumi due to his illness, along the way Stephen comes across Sachi, another person who dealing with an illness..Throughout the Samurai's Garden two characters bear conflicts regarding their separation from their family; using their situations, Tsukiyama demonstrates that humans separate themselves from their families in order for them to mature.

The Japanese culture really attracts me. I didn’t know they are good at Zen Garden before reading. One of the greatest examples of Zen Gardens is the Garden of the Daisen of Daitokuji by Soami. The garden as a whole is a miniature landscape. The big rocks represent a mountain while the wild area with gravels is the “ocean”. River, ocean, mountain, and plants, it is a tiny nature. Besides the fascinating design, it also combines with Zen Buddhist philosophy of time flies (Section 9.5).

These authors explore the need to present alternative options to a lack of healthy food options by having children and communities plant their own gardens. An early start to fixing this community issue would be the building of community gardens that would allow families and community residents to actively engage in the planting process and be able to reap what they grow (Ghose & Pettygrove, 2014). Gardens can be created at the school level, whereby students can incorporate what they learn in science and take field trips to local farms in order to understand the process. The family can become involved therefore through these gardens as well as ones developed in local, abandoned plots that can be turned to good use. At a certain age in school,

In search for our Mother Garden by Alice Walker talks about motherhood. Mother ran away from home to marry her husband when she was 17 years old. She had five children. She worked from day to night. Mother and grandmother are the ones who hands their children the creative spark, the seed of the flowers from their gardens. Mother made a garden and planted vegetables and fruit. There was never a moment for her to sit down. “ Whatever she planted grew as if by magic, and her arms as a grower of flowers spread over 3 counties (Walker. 525).” If the located “anonymous” black women from Alabama, Mother would turn out to be one the their grandmother, an artist who left mark in the only material she can afford. Mothers and grandmothers have more often

In 1955, this was the first Sister City relationship Between Asian and American cities, and It was lasting memorial to the friendship between the city of Nagasaki, Japan, and Saint Paul. It was designed by Masami Matsuda, landscape architect from Nagasaki, as a peaceful retreat. To decorate the garden, they also using the plants and trees that are hardy in Minnesota for created. The sponsor were donated by the family of “Mrs. John G”. Ordway. It was opened and mad available to the public in 1979. Although Japanese gardeners painstakingly consider the placement of every element, the garden is representative of a natural landscape. “Mr. Matsuda” credit nature itself with this garden creation.

To start with, Gardener bases his arguments on five consecutive points titled "Five minds for the future" (Gardener 2008, p. 100). The five points consist of discipline, synthesizing, creativity, respect and finally ethics. He holds the firm belief that the particular natures of the mind have a powerful insight in today's and moreover the future world. In the case of Fernandez, the resemblance is rather not distinct but quite similar. Fernandez bases his arguments on the notion of curiosity, insight, engagement, determination, intelligence, and values. It's perhaps not far out of context to agree that the two authors have a strong inclination to the achievement of one goal. But that's just an opinion an in-depth look into their views will

Before the birth of Islam, gardens were influenced by tradition, ritual and cultural background of the people. Islamic gardens involve many purposes that are performed under the idea of ‘garden of paradise’ where the Quran describes as a ‘al-jannah’.

The Interpretation of Nature in Classical Chinese Garden of Suzhou and Japanese Dry Landscape Garden of Ryoan-ji