SPYROS GERAVELIS LANDSCAPE DESIGN

 

Ishi wo tatten – koto              The art of setting stones

 

           “ With these words opens the oldest garden- making   treatise in Japan – most likely the oldest in the world – best known by the name Sakuteiki or Records of garden making……   This expression is used to define not only the placement of stones within the garden, but also the act of garden making itself…..  How fascinating to see that the simple act of standing a stone upright was so spiritually and aesthetically powerful  and so clearly central to the process of making a garden, that the act of setting stones became an appellation for gardening itself ”

 

From  the  book “Sakuteiki” by Jiro Takei and Marc. P. Keane