Research Center for Japanese Garden Art and Historical Heritage

THE JAPANESE GARDEN Intensive Seminar Plus in Kyoto

Contact

Research Center for Japanese Garden Art & Historical Heritage

2-116 Uryu-yama, Kita-shirakawa,
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8271 JAPAN

E-mail:
jgar-sem@kua.kyoto-art.ac.jp
It takes about 1 week for the replay. This e-mail address is for the questions about the intensive seminar only. Any questions regarding your stay in Kyoto, please ask your selected hotel directly.

For any other questions, please use the following address:
jgar-info@kua.kyoto-art.ac.jp

Web Address:
http://www.jghh.jp/center/
Application Form:
http://www.jghh.jp/center/semapply.php

Tentative Schedule

This schedule is a program that can take the following contents

  • History of Japanese Garden and Architecture
  • Shrine Gardens and Japanese Nature
  • Zen, Tea Culture, and Gardens
  • Dry Landscape and the Pond Garden
  • Garden Maintenance
  • Ancient Garden Heritage
  • Modern Gardens and Contemporary Landscape

* The schedule may be subject to change.

Sunday, September 28

Students Arrive

Monday, September 29

Morning: Registration & Orientation
Afternoon: Visit Kyoto Kamigamo Shrine, Shimogamo Shrine, Former Mitsui Family Shimogamo Villa

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Tuesday, September 30

Morning: Introductory Lectures on the Japanese Garden
Afternoon: Visit the gardens of Daitoku-ji, Zen monastery

Wednesday, October 1

Morning: Visit Kyoto Imperial Palace and one of its Imperial gardens
Afternoon: Visit a Machiya house with inner gardens
Visit the Suzaku Garden (contemporary design)

Thursday, October 2

Morning: Visit Daigo-ji garden
Afternoon: Visit Byodo-in garden. On-site lectures on Heian period gardens and hands-on practice in arranging stones at the Byodo-in Temple garden pond shore.

Friday, October 3

Morning: Visit Tairyu-sanso garden by Ogawa Jihei
Afternoon: Visit Murin-an garden by Ogawa Jihei，lectures on Materials and Construction

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Saturday, October 4

Free time all day

Sunday, October 5

Morning: Visit Kinkaku-ji garden
Afternoon: Visit Ryoan-ji garden and Ninna-ji gardens

Monday, October 6

All day excursion to Nara; Archetypical gardens, and Joruri Temple, Jikoin Temple. Visit restoration sites of ancient gardens, and learn the theory and methods of the restoration.

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Tuesday, October 7

Morning: Visit the Tenryu-ji gardens
Afternoon: Visit the Daikaku-ji temple compound

Wednesday, October 8

Morning and Afternoon:

On-site lectures on Daimyo gardens and hands-on practice maintenance in a historical garden in the Genkyu-rakurakuen garden in Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture

Thursday, October 9

Morning: Visit a stone cutter's workshop
Afternoon: Lecture on Japanese Gardens Outside of Japan

Friday, October 10

Morning and Afternoon: Travel to Ashu, deep in the mountains of Japan, preview and workshop introduction.
Evening: International colloquium

Saturday, October 11

All day garden making workshop at Ashuu

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Sunday, October 12

Visit Miyama's Traditional Thatched-Roof Houses and return to Kyoto for the Closing Ceremony

The seminar ends around 2:00 PM (14:00)