Jiro Takei

I really enjoyed this. Of course it's dated but as a gardener who lived in Japan, I loved the history and the thinking behind the gardens. A lot to think about when planning my next garden.

A heavily-annotated translation of a Heian-period text on garden design.
The first half of the book contains a lot of background information to put it into context, such as the typical layout of the types of houses to have such gardens and the importance of things like Buddhism, geomancy and directional taboos to their design.
I found this pretty interesting, but it has a lot of typos and punctuation errors.

Interesting.