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Along with design work, I am also an educator. For many years I was a lecturer in Department of Environmental Design at the Kyoto University of Arts and Design and presently a research fellow at both Cornell University and the Research Center for Japanese Garden Art, which runs an annual two-week Japanese Garden Seminar (in English), for which I act as organizer and as one of the core staff. I also lecture extensively throughout the United States, England, and Japan. As a writer, my work includes a variety of styles and venues, including Japanese Garden Design (which explains Japanese gardens in terms of their cultural background and inherent design), a translation of the Sakuteiki (Japan's thousand-year-old gardening treatise), and numerous articles and essays related to Japanese gardens and preservation in Kyoto. For many years I was chairman of Kyoto Mitate International, (formerly, International Society to Save Kyoto), an international NPO that was working to revitalize Kyoto's traditional environments and its unique cultural heritage. List of Publications (PDF 60KB) Curriculum Vitae (PDF 56KB) |
Graduate
of Cornell University's department of landscape architecture, I have made
Kyoto my home since 1985, first as a research fellow of Kyoto University,
now as a landscape architect and writer. My design work consists mostly
of gardens: private residences, company grounds, and temple gardens, although
I also design