Shakkei (Borrowed Scenery)
借景 / 17th century– / Technique / Garden Styles
Borrowing scenery: mountains and forests beyond the garden taken into the composition, framed by hedges and trees — the boldest idea of the crop, designing with landscape one cannot own.
Distant views captured / Framing by hedge / The middle ground erased / Composition including the outside
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Entsū-ji and Mount Hiei / the Sakuteiki / urbanization and endangered borrowed views