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was a notable modern Japanese landscape architect and historian of Japanese gardens. == Life and career == Mirei Shigemori was a garden designer who actively participated in many areas of Japanese art and design. Shigemori was born in Kayō, Jōbō District, Okayama Prefecture, and in his youth was exposed to lessons in traditional tea ceremony and flower arrangement, as well as landscape ink and wash painting. In 1917, he entered the Tokyo Fine Arts School to study ''nihonga'', or Japanese painting, and later completed a graduate degree from the Department of Research. In the early 1920s, he tried extensively to found a school of Japanese Culture, ''Bunka Daigakuin'' to synthesize the teaching of culture, but was foiled by the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, which forced him to move back to his hometown near Kyoto.〔Christian Tschumi, Mirei Shigemori, Rebel in the Garden : Modern Japanese Landscape Architecture (Basel; Boston: Birkhäuser, 2007).〕 He also intended to create a new style of ''ikebana'',or flower arrangement, and produced art criticism and history writings, including the ''Complete Works of Japanese Flower Arrangement Art'' published in 1930, and the ''New Ikebana Declaration'' written with Sofu Teshigahara and Bunpo Nakayama in 1933. Throughout his later gardening career, he maintained a voice in avant garde criticism of ''ikebana'' through publishing ''Ikebana Geijutsu'' magazine beginning in 1950, and through the founding of an ''ikebana'' study group called ''Byakutosha'' in 1949. At the same time, he cultivated an interest and knowledge in traditional Japanese gardens. He co-founded the ''Kyoto Rinsen Kyokai'' with others in 1932. After the destruction caused by the Muroto typhoon in 1934, he began a survey of significant gardens in Japan. In 1938, he finished publishing the 26-volume ''Illustrated Book on the History of the Japanese Garden'', an unprecedented and meticulous documentation of major gardens in the country which he revised in 1971, shortly before his death. He began practicing as a garden designer in 1914 with a garden and tea room on his family’s property. His first major work was a design for the garden at Tofuku-ji Temple in 1939. He designed 240 gardens, and worked mostly in ''karesansui'', or dry landscape gardens. Many of his gardens are on existing religious sites, but a few of his works are in cultural or commercial settings. He also collaborated with Isamu Noguchi in choosing stones for the UNESCO Garden in Paris. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mirei Shigemori」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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