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Katsura Imperial Villa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ), or Katsura Detached Palace, is a villa with associated gardens and outbuildings in the western suburbs of Kyoto, Japan (in Nishikyo-ku, separate from the Kyoto Imperial Palace). The palace formerly belonged to the princes of the Hachijo-no-miya (八条宮) family. The walls of the Middle Shoin and New Palace have ink-paintings by the school of Kanō Tan'yū (狩野 探幽). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katsura_Imperial_Villa   (601 words)

Katsura Detached Palace, Kyoto - Multimedia - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) The Katsura Detached Palace in Kyoto, Japan, was built between 1620 and 1662, during the Edo period, by a family of imperial princes. The palace is one of the greatest masterpieces of traditional Japanese architecture, with its wooden construction, sliding paper panels called shoji, irregular plan, and integration with its garden surroundings. The gardens around the palace include ornamental ponds and one teahouse for each season of the year. au.encarta.msn.com /media_121620921/Katsura_Detached_Palace_Kyoto.html   (108 words)

Katsura Detached Palace - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, Fujiwara no Michinaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, World War II, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Katsura Detached Palace (桂離宮) is a villa in Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, separate from the Kyoto Imperial Palace. The palace formerly belonged the the princes of the Hachijo-no-miya family. The shoin of Katsura Detached Palace is divided into three parts: the Old Shoin, the Middle Shoin, and the New Palace. www.thebestlinks.com /Katsura_Detached_Palace.html   (434 words)

Weekly Kitombo | Takeru Mikami | April 9, 2001 Famous in Kyoto is the "Katsura Detached Palace" which is also situated on the other end of Kagetsu-kyo, on the western bank of the Katsura River. Katsura Detached Palace was none other than a palace away from the ground and up in the lunar world. As the Chinese character "katsura" has "tree" on the left hand side, we know that this word represents a tree, simliar to cypress, cedar or pine. www.kitombo.com /e/mikami/0409.html   (1305 words)

Kyoto Katsura Detached Palace, known for its architectural style and unique beautiful garden, is located in the southwest of Kyoto City. The Palace originated when a tea house was built as a villa of the Imperial Hachijo-no-miya Family in the 1620s, and most of the existing buildings had been constructed and the garden had been developed almost as it is now by 1662. To visit Katsura Detached Palace, advance permission of the Imperial Household Agency is required. www.lubbockisd.org /LHS/departments/socialstudies/APGeography/citytour/kyoto.html   (1382 words)

Katsura Detached Palace - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Katsura Detached Palace - Search Results - MSN Encarta Katsura Detached Palace, 17th-century Japanese princely villa on the bank of the Katsura River in Nishikyo Ward, Kyoto, Japan. Katsura Detached Palace combines elements of classic Japanese architecture with innovative restatements. uk.encarta.msn.com /Katsura_Detached_Palace.html   (106 words)

Katsura Rikyu The Katsura Imperial Villa, which is known in Japan as Katsura Rikyu (Katsura Detached Palace) was created during the first half of the seventeenth century. The Katsura Imperial Villa is a complex work of art which is rooted in a thousand years of earlier Japanese gardens. By the time that the Katsura Imperial Villa was begun, Zen aesthetics had transformed the brilliant gardens of Heian Japan into the serene compositions which we think of as typical Japanese gardens. www.suite101.com /article.cfm/garden_design/49801   (448 words)

The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) In any case, the Edo castle has been the emperor’s palace only since 1867, when he took it over from the Tokugawa Shogun, the Dewan whose dynasty effectively ruled Japan from 1603 until power was restored to Emperor Meiji after a rebellion against Shogun Bakufu in 1867. The prince’s visitors hardly ventured beyond the front reception room; the rest of the palace was for the enjoyment of the prince and his family alone. That feeling was best promoted by the landscape so carefully crafted to the south of the palace — the lake with its three islands connected by arched bridges, and the teahouse sited to give the best view of the autumn moon and the reflections of clouds. www.telegraphindia.com /1051213/asp/opinion/story_5579966.asp   (1180 words)

tange and taut For years Taut’s opinion of Katsura remained the last word on the site and ushered in international as well as domestic acclamation for the Detached Palace which came to be seen as an exemplar of modern architecture created many years ago. In this way, Katsura also, for Tange, represented the Japanese people—a synthesis of passion and refinement at all times tempered by a love of and kinship with nature, he writes, "It was in the period when the Katsura Palace was built that the two traditions, Jomon and Yayoi, first actually collided. He also points out that the gardens around Katsura are both the lake garden of Genji--the shinden style gardens of the Heian courtiers--and the first of the modern tour gardens. www.columbia.edu /itc/ealac/V3613/katsura/dmb50t01.htm   (746 words)

Indonesiapetrified_Architectural   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) The so-called Governors’ Palace at Uxmal, sited on a great artificial terrace, is a long, horizontal building, the proportions and ornamentation of which suggest the eye and hand of a master designer. The Palace of Versailles became the centre of government and was continuously enlarged between 1667 and 1710. The Crystal Palace (1850-1851; reconstructed 1852-1854) in London, a vast but ephemeral exhibition hall, was the work of Sir Joseph Paxton, a man who had learned how to put iron and glass together in the design of large greenhouses. www.geocities.com /indonesiapetrified/architectural.htm   (10348 words)

Survival Arts: Quote of the Day "...only at Katsura [Detached Palace] does there exist that overwhelming freedom of intellect which does not subordinate any element of the structure or the garden to some rigid system. At Katsura, on the contrary, each element remains a free individual, much like a member of a good society in which harmony arises from the absence of coercion so that everyone may express himself according to his individual nature. Thus the Katsura Palace is a completely isolated miracle in the civilized world." www.survivalarts.com /archives/000532.html   (167 words)

The Introduction to the Katsura Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) The main house of Katsura represents only one small portion of a much larger site, but is also the primary structure within the area of the Detached Palace. The Old Shoin, the first of the three main buildings which make up the main house of the Katsura Detached Palace, was built under the auspices of Prince Toshihito, the first head of the Hachijô family, and could perhaps be a revised version of the "little teahouse in the melon patch" built around 1616. Akira Naito writes that, "The three sections of the main house reflect the shift from the shoin style of the late middle ages to the sukiya style of the early Edo period—a historical transition that led to the development of modern Japanese residential architecture." www.columbia.edu /itc/ealac/V3613/katsura/dmb50o01.htm   (286 words)

Kumamoto En Elements   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Their windows, covered with rice paper to shield the wind, and illuminated with small oil lamps or candles, cast their light as guides at a garden entrance, at a special viewpoint, or along the pathway to teahouses or azumayas. This style of lantern was designed specifically for garden use and is also used in the Katsura Palace garden. This is a replica of the original at Katsura Detached Palace except it is slightly higher. www.sabot.org /garden/formal/kumamoto/elements.htm   (1768 words)

ayasofya, Art, Free Essays @ ChuckIII College Resources It is reflected in the formality of the Chinese house, built in rectangular form, preferably at the northern end of a walled courtyard entered from the south, with auxiliary elements disposed in a symmetrical fashion on either side of the north-south axis. The Palace of Versailles became the center of government and was continuously enlarged between 1667 and 1710. The Crystal Palace (1850-51; reconstructed 1852-54) in London, a vast but ephemeral exhibition hall, was the work of Sir Joseph Paxton, a man who had learned how to put iron and glass together in the design of large greenhouses. www.chuckiii.com /Reports/Art/ayasofya.shtml   (10918 words)

Portfolio#2 "Imperial Garden of Kyoto" More than three centuries ago, when Kyoto was the capital of Japan, three magnificent gardens were created there for the imperial court. Today these three gardens-those of the Sento Imperial Palace (Sento Gosho), the Katsura Detached Palace (Katsura Rikyu), and the Shugakuin Detached Palace (Shugakuin Rikyu)-are among the most celebrated in Japanese garden art. In 1996, I was invited by the Japanese government to spend four months photographing the three Imperial Gardens, the first photographer ever given the privilege for such an extended period of study. www.williamcorey.com /pages/pg2.html   (206 words)

AH 372 (Phillips) Katsura Detached Palace, Main Residence, Exterior view through lawn garden, Kyoto, 1620-1663 Katsura Detached Palace, Old Shoin (Moon Viewing Pavilion), Interior, Kyoto, 1620-1663 Katsura Detached Palace, Shôkintei teahouse, Interior, Kyoto, 1620-1663 www.wisc.edu /arth2test/ah372/08.html   (167 words)

San Antonio Botanical Garden 555 Funston San Antonio Texas - Formal Garden/Kumamoto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Construction drawings for the project were somewhat complicated because most of the information had to be exchanged via fax machine between San Antonio and Kumamoto, Japan. The Kumamoto En garden is designed using styles and techniques from Kumamoto’ s 300-year-old Suizenji Garden and from Katsura Detached Palace garden in Kyoto. This Azumaya is a replica of the one at Katsura Detached Palace. www.sabot.org /garden/formal/kumamoto/kumam.htm   (618 words)

artnet.com: Resource Library: Ishimoto, Yasuhiro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) At the same time he photographed the Katsura Detached Palace in Kyoto, one of the great buildings of the 17th century, publishing the results as Katsura (Tokyo, 1960). This collection, which showed the influence of Callahan and Siskind, involved a new way of interpreting the traditional beauty of Japan and was somewhat shocking to the Japanese. In subsequent years he developed his interest in the Japanese sense of beauty, typified in the Katsura Detached Palace, while also recording the rapidly changing metropolis of Tokyo. www.artnet.com /library/04/0417/T041744.asp   (304 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) The Japanese express a deep poetic response to nature, and their houses are more concerned with achieving a satisfying relationship with earth, water, rocks, and trees than with establishing a social order. This approach is epitomized in the Katsura Detached Palace (1st half of the 17th century), designed and built by a master of the tea ceremony. Its constructions ramble in a seemingly casual way, but in reality constitute a carefully considered sequence always integrated with vistas to or from outdoor features. www.bergen.org /AAST/Projects/Engineering_Graphics/_EG2001/pedi_corporation/japan.html   (204 words)

THE BEAUTY OF JAPAN PHOTOGRAPHED - Gold Coast City Art Gallery - Absolutearts.com His intimate series of photographs took twelve years to complete and transcends the bounds of documentary photography, to create a body of work both haunting and serene in its beauty. Yasuhiro Ishimoto embraces the formal qualities of photography in his documentation of the Katsura Detached Palace. While each photographer has worked with the subject matter of traditional images of Japanese beauty, there are striking differences in the way each has documented their subject matter. www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2000/12/15/27832.html   (440 words)

Imperial and Detached Palaces: Kyoto Imperial Palace, Katsura Detached Palace, Shugakuin Detached Palace and the Others ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Imperial and Detached Palaces: Kyoto Imperial Palace, Katsura Detached Palace, Shugakuin Detached Palace and the Others - S. (text); Supervised by Kyoto Imperial Palace Takayama Imperial and Detached Palaces: Kyoto Imperial Palace, Katsura Detached Palace, Shugakuin Detached Palace and the Others by Takayama, S. (text); Supervised by Kyoto Imperial Palace Text portion describes the various palaces and contains a section on procedures for visiting palaces. www.biblio.com /books/1450974.html   (155 words)

Kyoto - Wikimedia Commons The inscription allegedly provided a reason for the start of the Siege of Osaka. The pagoda at Toji is the tallest in Japan. Imperial palaces, villas, graves and other Imperial locations 京都御所や離宮など commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Kyoto   (420 words)

Amazon.com: Japanese Residences and Gardens: A Tradition of Integration: Books: Michio Fujioka,Kazunori Tsunenari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Imperial Palace, Katsura Detached Palace, Ninomaru Palace, New Palace, Old Shoin, Katsura Palace, Middle Shoin, Palanquin Entry I bought the book because I intend to build a japanese style house.This book is useless in residence design.The title is wrong!The book is about famous royal palaces and sorroundings.It contains exactly nineteen beautiful color pictures, showing some general views of six imperial palaces and gardens. Short descriptions and historical details are presented with a score of fl and white pictures and some sketcks. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/4770019777?v=glance   (715 words)

Windsmith Design - Biography Living in Kyoto for four years as an apprentice to one of Japan’s top designers, Mark was actively involved in the creation of new gardens and the maintenance of a number of Japan’s greatest classical gardens. His training included work on new gardens at Kodai-ji Zen Temple, the construction of the Japanese Garden in Florence, Italy, and pruning at the Kyoto Imperial Palace and the Katsura Detached Palace. He also worked at a number of other Zen temples, private residences, and public gardens as an apprentice. www.windsmithdesign.com /biography_windsmith_design.html   (273 words)

Environmental Design: Videotapes in the Media Resources Center UCB There are many shapes to this dream: Gothic cottages and minicastles surrounded by manicured wilderness, detached dwellings in wooded surroundings, a totally designed community that combines quaintness and modernity and other. A visit to one of the world's greatest edifices, the magnificent palace and monastery of El Escorial, built by King Phillip II in the 16th century, and a stop in Toledo, to see Moorish architecture, El Greco's home and his exquisite paintings. This film follows Isozaki as he revisits the most important buildings of his career, one of which is the Fujimi Country Club, designed in the s80s, including LA's Museum of Contemporary Art, Hara àbsession with golf. www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/EnvidesignVid.html   (15923 words)

Amazon.com: The garden lanterns in the Katsura palace (Survey of international affairs, 1939-1946): Books: Niwa TeizoÌ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Amazon.com: The garden lanterns in the Katsura palace (Survey of international affairs, 1939-1946): Books: Niwa TeizoÌ The garden lanterns in the Katsura palace (Survey of international affairs, 1939-1946) (Unknown Binding) Imperial and Detached Palaces: Kyoto Imperial Palace, Katsura Detached Palace, (Price: $125.00) www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007KFYBS?v=glance   (297 words)

Japan Garden - E52: Katsura Rikyu (Katsura Detached Palace) c.1620 JapanGarden.co.uk :: Interiors :: Buy Japanese Artwork and Prints :: William Corey - Japanese garden photographer :: Imperial Gardens of Kyoto :: E52: Katsura Rikyu (Katsura Detached Palace) c.1620 E52: Katsura Rikyu (Katsura Detached Palace) c.1620 #1105 An ideal garden, at the same time that it is an unending garden, an unbounded garden, must be a garden in constant flight. www.japangarden.co.uk /~jgarden/product.php?printable=Y&productid=1105   (166 words)

Japanese Architecture Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Gaijiro Fujishima, "Katsura Rikyu: Katsura Detached Palace", Suiko Shoin, Kyoto, 1950 Walter Gropius, Kenzo Tange, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, "Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture", Yale University Press, New Haven, 1960 A reasonably good work. Osamu Mori, "Photo Collection: Katsura Imperial Villa", Mainichi Newspapers, Tokyo, 1970 Akira Naito, Takeshi Nishikawa, (translated Charles S. Terry), "Katsura: A Princely Retreat", Kodansha, New York, 1977 A very fine book, the definitive work on this perhaps most important of all Japanese buildings. Naomi Okawa, Chuji Hirayama, (translated Alan Woodhull, Akito Miyamoto), "Edo Architecture: Katsura and Nikko", Weatherhill, New York, 1975 Gisei Takakuwa, Toyo Okamoto, "Katsura Rikyu: Detached Palace", Suiko Shoin, Kyoto, 1950 Yoshiro Taniguchi, Jiro Harada, Tatsuzo Sato, "The Shugakuin Imperial Villa", Mainichi, Tokyo, 1956 sailfish.exis.net /~jnc/nontech/japanarch_bks.html   (938 words)

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