# English Landscape Garden (イングリッシュ・ランドスケープ・ガーデン)

> The 18th-century English revolution that abandoned geometry to construct nature-seeming scenery: rolling lawns, serpentine lakes, temples in the distance — pictures built out of land itself, the prototype of the public park.

- IndexStyle No.404 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/english-landscape-garden
- Kind: Style · Family: Garden Styles · Era: 1720s–1800s
- Mood: Calm, Exhilaration, Luxury
- Color cues: #e9e6dd / #67635d / #171615 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

- Rolling lawn and lake
- Temples and follies
- The concealed ha-ha fence
- A sequence of pictorial views

## Best used for

- Comparing primary sources and canonical works
- Extracting principles that transfer to other media

## Research method

This entry records a historical style; derive the treatment from its sources rather than a fixed recipe:

- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process

## What to avoid

Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.

## Application checklist

Before calling a piece an application of this style, check it against the defining characteristics:

- [ ] Rolling lawn and lake
- [ ] Temples and follies
- [ ] The concealed ha-ha fence
- [ ] A sequence of pictorial views
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **French Formal Garden (フランス式整形庭園)** — The garden Le Nôtre perfected at Versailles: axis, symmetry and perspective, nature disciplined into geometry by shears and water — power made visible as spatial order. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/french-formal-garden
- **Cottage Garden (コテージガーデン)** — The English garden of overflowing mixed planting, stylized from the working kitchen plot. Jekyll's color schemes and Sissinghurst's White Garden raised planned artlessness to an art. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/cottage-garden

## Further study

- Capability Brown
- William Kent
- the Picturesque debate

## Reference works

- ストアヘッド（CC BY-SA 4.0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GardenLake%20ApolloTemple%20Stourhead.jpg
- ストウの湖と神殿（CC BY-SA 2.0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake%20at%20Stowe%20Landscape%20Garden%20with%20Temple%20in%20distance%20-%20geograph.org.uk%20-%2077696.jpg

## Source of record

- National Trust — Stowe Gardens — https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/buckinghamshire/stowe-gardens

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/english-landscape-garden
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/english-landscape-garden/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compose_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)

## 日本語

幾何学を捨て「自然に見える」風景を人工で構築した18世紀英国の革命。うねる芝地、蛇行する湖、点在する神殿——絵画のような眺めを土地ごと造形し、公園の原型になった。

特徴: うねる芝地と湖／点在する神殿とフォリー／隠れ柵（ハハ）／絵画的な眺めの連続
注意: 表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。