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- Title
Hearing a shakkei: The semiotics of the audible in a Japanese stroll garden.
- Authors
Fowler, Michael
- Abstract
Though there has been some interest in the semiotics of Japanese gardens (Casalis 1983; van Tonder and Lyons 2005) as pure visual articulations of landscape elements, attention to what Schafer (1977) and Truax (2001) identify as a garden's soundscape has been lacking. This paper investigates the gardening technique of shakkei (borrowed scenery) in the Tokyo garden Kyu Furukawa Teien. Utilizing the terminology of Schafer and Truax, I construct a Greimas square to interrogate the semiotic function of the shakkei in light of traditional Japanese uses of Chinese geomancy, and to further investigate the garden's synthesis of landscape and soundscape elements.
- Subjects
JAPAN; SEMIOTICS; VISUAL perception; GEOMANCY; SOUNDSCAPES (Auditory environment); GARDENING; GARDENS
- Publication
Semiotica, 2013, Vol 2013, Issue 197, p101
- ISSN
0037-1998
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/sem-2013-0083