{"product_id":"9781462905904","title":"Houses and Gardens of Kyoto","description":"For all the damage that has occurred over the centuries, for all the relentless and destructive modernization still taking place today, Kyoto, imperial capital for more than a millennium, remains a rich, inexhaustible archive of Japanese cultural history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHouses and Gardens of Kyoto\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a broad array of Kyoto's traditional houses from every period of the city's history. They range from summer villas to townhouses, from monumental Buddhist temples to insubstantial garden pavilions, from personal homes to traditional inns. All have their associated outdoor spaces, whether condensed courtyard gardens, picturesque stroll gardens, \"dry landscape\" stone gardens, or the \"borrowed scenery\" of distant landscapes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth exquisite photo album and fascinating historical study, \u003ci\u003eHouses and Gardens of Kyoto\u003c\/i\u003e is sure to be the standard reference work on this topic for many decades to come.","brand":"Tuttle Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107627122928,"sku":"9781462905904","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462905904_p0.jpg?v=1763679718","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462905904","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}