![]() Re-envisioning Asia: Contestations and Struggles in the Visual Arts.Distinguished Service to the Association for Asian Studies Award.Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award.Striving for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asian Studies: Humanities Grants for Asian Studies Scholars.Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies.Cultivating the Humanities & Social Sciences Initiative Grants.Key Issues in Asian Studies Book Series. ![]() Connect, Collaborate, Contribute: AAS Membership Recruitment Drive.AAS Takes Action to Build Diversity & Equity in Asian Studies.AAS Community Forum Log In and Participate.In another authentic touch, an end wall of the building is plastered in natural clay like its counterparts elsewhere at Yume, and to which a gleaming white lime finish has been applied such an overcoat is traditionally used to protect the earthen walls of farm storehouses from erosion by rain. Accenting the verandas are sliding shoji doors some 150 years old, from a bygone farm house in the Kansai Region on Japan’s chief main island of Honshu. This is a place from which to contemplate the Zen Garden, or to sit while waiting for a tea master to summon guests to the tea ceremonies sometimes held in the space between the buildings.īeside Yume’s Koi Pond Garden stands another farm outbuilding typical of the Japanese countryside, adapted to serve as a large viewing pavilion by the addition to it of two low verandas, which overlook the pond on one side and the Roji Garden on the other. ![]() Also built with clay walls and wooden timbers in the sukiya style, on its garden side is an attached and sheltered bench. This pillar lends proportion to a neighboring alcove called tokonoma, devoted to displaying a single traditional Japanese flower arrangement or a hanging scroll with a painterly nature scene or the bold black brushstrokes of a famous poem.Ĭlose by the cottage and forming a compound with it beside the Zen Garden is a replica of a small Japanese farm outbuilding. Within Yume’s replica of a traditional Japanese cottage, overlooking the Zen Garden, is another such post. They are peeled of bark and not planed, to expose the beauty of their hidden mottling and markings. This can be seen in the thick tree branches used as posts in one of the machiai or viewing shelters for contemplating the residential courtyard gardens at Yume. The essence of the style also lies in the pleasing simplicity to be found in using common materials in a refined way. This creates the feeling of being out of doors even while actually inside. ![]() One key element of the sukiya style is that it opens interior spaces to outside gardens. It centers on a Japanese architectural style called sukiya, chosen for its openness to nature and because it does not intrude upon or interfere with the subtle scale relationships found in our gardens. In its structures, the focus at Yume is also deliberately different. The Roji Garden is the smallest garden at Yume, but compressed in it is the sensory experience and spiritual passage of a walk from a bustling day-to-day world to the repose of a secluded hut to take part in the ceremony called Chado, “The Way of Tea.”īy showcasing intimate courtyard gardens instead of expansive landscapes, Yume stands apart from nearly all its kindred in North America. Softening the surrounding space are the curly stems of groundcover plants, and small trees and shrubs shade the area with branches largely left untrimmed to create a shadowy atmosphere that calms the mind and spirit in preparation for a tea ceremony. A bamboo ladle atop the boulder is for dipping water to ritually cleanse one’s hands and mouth before entering a tea house. Irregularly shaped natural stepping stones wend to a basin carved into a dark gray boulder the sound of water falling into the cut stone from a bamboo pipe suggests the gurgle of a forest stream, and the overflow makes the sculptural boulder glisten like a wet river rock. For lack of space, Yume’s Roji Garden has no tea house, but other key elements of the subdued and often almost woodsy setting associated with tea houses are here. Roji means “path,” and in particular the approach to a tea house. ![]()
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