Tag: marc Keane

The Name of the Willow

February 27, 2024 /

Marc Keane is well-known to readers for his remarkable books on Japanese Gardens, and during his lunchtime talk for WiK last autumn he revealed that he was working on three new writing projects. One of them has now come to fruition, The Name of the Willow. Like Rebecca Otowa, whose artistic talents were evident in …Read More

Publications of Marc Keane

October 30, 2023 /

On Sunday, October 29, Writers in Kyoto had the honour and pleasure of a lunchtime talk by Japanese garden expert, Marc Keane. After some twenty years in Japan, when he not only studied about Japanese gardens but designed them, he returned to America where he taught at Cornell University before relocating recently back to Kyoto. …Read More

Of Arcs and Circles

December 30, 2021 /

Book Review by Rebecca Otowa OF ARCS AND CIRCLES: insights from Japan on gardens, nature, and artby Marc Peter Keane (Stone Bridge Press, 2019) The first thing I noticed about this book is that it is made up of essays, similar to Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard, which …Read More

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