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Robert Ketchell's blog: August 2014
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Musings, ramblings, and other writings of a mind looking for the mind. Photography, poetry and prose. Friday, 22 August 2014. Sakuteki. The Oldest Garden Manual. The ‘Book of Garden Making’, compiled by Tachibana no Toshitsuna (1028-1094) is perhaps the world’s oldest garden manual. The author, a nobleman of high standing, was the reputed builder of the ‘Phoenix Hall’ at Byodo-in, near Nara, which still survives in part today. Sakuteki. Midera temple, Shiga prefecture. Suggests that the stress in aware.
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Robert Ketchell's blog: April 2014
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Musings, ramblings, and other writings of a mind looking for the mind. Photography, poetry and prose. Tuesday, 29 April 2014. Beauty To Be Born. The sun breaks through –. Spooks some iridescent flies. Resting on a garden chair. Dear Mother and Father,. Now, I am a Grandparent too. Wherever your spirits are now,. You would be proud too. Beauty to be born. It’s a call to trust. To allow the unfolding to happen. To know from the heart. Being reborn in the air. The heaving earth and infinite sky. At the very...
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Robert Ketchell's blog: May 2014
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Musings, ramblings, and other writings of a mind looking for the mind. Photography, poetry and prose. Wednesday, 28 May 2014. Then re-shaped by the hill –. The weight of the earth. Pulling at my legs. Wild garlic smothering steep flanks–. Water knowing no bounds. The stone arrangers had been here before. Raising heavenward sweat stained stone,. A double ring and bank –. What you saw still exists. Yet still, we come back too. Always saturated in sound. Hearing creates the world anew. It never had to move.
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Robert Ketchell's blog: February 2014
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Musings, ramblings, and other writings of a mind looking for the mind. Photography, poetry and prose. Sunday, 16 February 2014. Arranging Stones in a Japanese style garden. Something next to a large boulder will naturally seem quite small, until it is delivered to your front garden and needs shifting to the back of the house! Broadly speaking there are five types of stones, or five basic patterns that fit into the selection of stones that are used to make up an arrangement. There is no set formula th...
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Robert Ketchell's blog: Releasing Flowers
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Musings, ramblings, and other writings of a mind looking for the mind. Photography, poetry and prose. Tuesday, 18 August 2015. Lifting the bowl of tea. Gathered in the thick base. Reading Ryõkan’s poems. Of landscape and solitude,. How light an empty mind. To float downstream,. One thing after another! The key was acceptance,. Sliding into the lock. So the heart turned. Into that which is past,. Oh, for more and more of now. Is to accept change as a constant,. Only now the path and journey dance. Robert ...
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Robert Ketchell's blog: October 2014
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Musings, ramblings, and other writings of a mind looking for the mind. Photography, poetry and prose. Monday, 13 October 2014. Tea and the Japanese Garden. A major factor in accelerating the emergence of the Tea ceremony(. In the early Middle Ages was the rise of the. The rise of the samurai class did not mean a move away from admiration of Chinese artworks and artefacts, the veneration and appreciation of karamono. An alcove for hanging a scroll of either calligraphy or a painting, a secondary alcove ts...
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Robert Ketchell's blog: February 2015
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Musings, ramblings, and other writings of a mind looking for the mind. Photography, poetry and prose. Friday, 27 February 2015. Working Methods and Japanese style Garden Creation. In the first instance I wanted to know, ‘how do these gardens work here in Japan? 8217; ‘Why do they seem to have this atmosphere, this particular quality to be so engrossing? Private garden, Surrey, UK. Stone setting, Cheshire, UK. The spirit or essence of the process of creation operates beyond apparent form. Form gives v...
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Robert Ketchell's blog: December 2014
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Musings, ramblings, and other writings of a mind looking for the mind. Photography, poetry and prose. Saturday, 27 December 2014. Ogawa Jihei, Japanese Garden Genius. Ichida Tairyu, Kyoto. One of the first gardens created by Ogawa was for the family friend Namikawa Yasuyuki, this small garden at the residence and studio of the cloisonné artist still exists much as Jihei created it. The main building sits over a pond with an island, and has an beautifully composed balance. Namikawa residence, Kyoto. Anniv...
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Robert Ketchell's blog: December 2013
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Musings, ramblings, and other writings of a mind looking for the mind. Photography, poetry and prose. Friday, 27 December 2013. Water Permeating The Soil. The bank of bent ferns. Brilliant deep russet –. In aqueous flow,. Footfall on the muddy track. Clay flesh slippery underfoot,. The wind in the firs. The wind in the pines -. The path shapes my body. To its inward curve,. Of mother to be -. Flowing also in water. The flowing of new flesh. Balanced in equity of being. The point of transformation,. Perha...
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