Takeshi Art Beat - 2012/05/03 - Legendary garden designer Sano Toemon XVI

May 3, Thu.
Legendary garden designer Sano Toemon XVI in Kyoto

Sano Toemon XVI
Born in 1928

A line of gardeners appointed by the Ninnaji temple, dating from the Edo Period.
Has worked on the gardens of the Katsura and Shugakuin Imperial Villas. Master gardener for the Kyoto State Guest House completed in 2005. Known for progressive gardens, he cooperated with Isamu Noguchi in creating the Japanese garden of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The first Japanese recipient of UNESCO's Picasso Medal (1997).

Takeshi visits Kyoto in cherry blossom season. He first goes to the orchard of the 16th Toemon Sano, the most noted cherry tree grower in Japan and the custodian of some 150 valuable cherry trees. He also visits the garden at the Kyoto State Guest House, to which Sano devoted a decade to complete, and the garden of a Gion teahouse, which for many years has been his favored salve for the soul. They reflect on the Japanese aesthetic sense and relationship with the world of nature.

TAKESHI's VOICE
TAKESHI's VOICE

Japanese people have a kind of inherited ability to perceive natural beauty. If a leaf falls on a rock, most people would sweep it away. But on a stone path like the entrance to this teahouse, we Japanese might say, "This fallen leaf complements the shape of this rock beautifully."

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