著者

沢田 天瑞

出版者

社団法人 日本造園学会

雑誌

造園雑誌 (ISSN:03877248)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.37, no.4, pp.2-12, 1973-03-31 (Released:2011-07-19)

参考文献数

16

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The Ryoanji Garden is composed of a pond, a fountain and various stones; all of them are characteristic of the Rinzai Zen Buddhism. This garden did Gensho Giten, the founder of this Ryoanji temple, build in order to enhance the essence of the Myoshinji school.The subject of this garden means the Buddha himself who originates in Zen texts, such as the Soeishu, Hekiganroku, and Gokeshoshiisan.The conception of it is the “realization of our inner Buddha-nature” originating in the 7th Kean of the Hekiganroku-the Meaning of the Buddha Asked by Echo.Its formation means the “freedom from literal attachment “and the” transmission of the Buddhamind beyond his teachings” coming from the 18th Koan of the Hekiganrokuthe Stupa of No-form by Echu-kokushi-and the Answers of National Teacher Echu in the Soeishic, and Mitsuan Kantetsu in the Gokeshushrsan.

著者

沢田 天瑞

出版者

社団法人 日本造園学会

雑誌

造園雑誌 (ISSN:03877248)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.36, no.1, pp.23-30, 1972-08-30 (Released:2011-07-19)

参考文献数

14

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The ancient Chinese defines the spirit of zen as the followings; Zen is the name of heart. Thart is the body of Zen.The short sentence of FURI TSUMONJI, KYOGAIBETSUDEN represents also the basic metaphysical thinking of Zen sect, and is svmbolised ollly by a word of MU.It means that the essence of Zen is free or nothing in spirit, but is flexible something like an ecko in the deep valley or a reflected image upon the water.For zen sect gardens, therefore, there are no appreciation rules, and yet no written records about composition of gardens and techniques.The author believes that the zen sect garden is a reflection of human life and its composition represents metaphysical thinking and cosmology rooted in Zen. This is especially true for the ancient notable Zen disciples, in most of cases they were the founders of new temples, that garden is a part of the most ideal demonstration places for their original metaphysics and history of spiritual awakenning through designed forms and ornamentsIt is here that the need for research upon these hypotheses is necessary for knowing true meaning of the garden composition symbolise deeply behind, and for opening up a new method of approaching to study on traditional Japanese garden design.This study, therefore, is designed to clarify the followings;1. to find out the original source of the subject of garden, 2. to identify the main theme of the garden from the source, which is translated into modern language, 3. to analyse the garden composition along the main subject, 4. to conclude the identification by use of plan maps and literary quotations

著者

沢田 天瑞

出版者

社団法人日本造園学会

雑誌

造園雑誌 (ISSN:03877248)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.36, no.2, pp.35-40, 1973-02-28

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The ancient Chinese defines the spirit of Zen as the following ; Zen is the name of heart. The heart is body of the Zen. Therefore, the essence of Zen is "Mu" shown as "FURITSUMONJI KYOGAIBETSUDEN". It means that the spirit of Zen is free or nothing like an echo in the deep valley, or a reflected image upon the water. Thus, there are no appreciation rules for the Zen sect gardens, and yet no written records on the conception for their gardens. The author celieves that the Zen sect garden is a reflection of the heart of man, that is Zen priest, whose phyrosophy is symbolised in his garden design. It is especially true for the famous Zen disciples, founders of new temples, who wish to express their conception of Zen creeds and teachings, or history of their spiritual awakenning for their temples. Here, they played very important role upon the formation of garden compositjon ; they were the composers and ofen the landscape architects. The gardeners took part of only engineer. Therefore, the Zen sect gardens are a part of symbole of phyrosophy of Zen. Change of garden forms symbolises history of spiritual awakennig of priest, and in the change of his phyrosophy, it is hidden the heart of Zen. The author believes that the need of research upon these hypotheses are necessary in terms of spirit of Zen that is symbolised in the garden forms quite logically. This study is divided into the following parts ; 1. source of theme in relation to the Zen phyrosophy, 2. theme of garden, 3. conception for imaginative garden by the founder priest, 4. composition in relation to the imagination. The Koho-An Garden was constructed as a Kare-Sansui Styled of the Lin-Zai Zen sect Zen-Rin Garden by Enshu Kobori in 1612. The priest, Kogetsu Sogan was invited by Enshu Kobori as the founder of the Koho-An which used to be constructed in the Ryuko-In (temple). The relationship between the garden composition and the Zen spirit is identified as the following. The source of theme for the garden is asked for in fhe texts of "Daitokokushi Goroku", "Linzai roku", and "Hekiganroku". The theme of garden is "musabetsubyoto", everything is equal in this world. The garden conception is spiritual awakenning, Satori in Japanese. Image of the garden composition is sought in the landscape of "Syoso-Hakkei" in Chaina. (the further description on details is omitted in the English summary. )