Leonard Coren: This is not a line

This is not a line, but it removes the religious background in Kyoto's gardens and notes the gravel and sand that have been considered ‘the background.’. In this book, a series of photographs of the various layouts and patterns of gravel and sand are painted in a rather unobtrusive way of seeing Kyoto's gardens. Building gardens with gravel and sand represents the artificiality that nature does not allow to run in a rigid fashion. ‘The dry garden, ’ says the newspaper, ‘is a constant oil level, such as regular purification, herbing, cutting and restructuring, in order to manage a garden without water. Without constant effort to renew and shape the forks, the gravel and sand gardens are being destroyed and destroyed by wind, rain, earthquakes, gravity, moss, weeds, leaves, human provocations. A new look into the Japanese gardens, eliminating the meanings of ‘ good ’ or ‘ spiritual ’ that have been taken for granted. This reminds us of the unexpected fact that a garden is not a good tree, but a way of looking at nature as it is, rather than having it reduced in detail and placed under snow. The solid human determination to preserve the garden against nature and his capricious temperament. I invite you on the journey to find the beauty of the high.

Korean title: 이것은 선이 아니다

Korean author: 레너드 코렌

Korean publisher: 북노마드

ISBN-13: 9791186561751