THE HOUSE OF SABI / DIDACTIC LINE
Gardens of Longevity
Learn and contemplate beauty
This book began as a pursuit to map the inner life as a garden, one that grows differently depending on which emotions you tend.
Twenty-four named gardens, each built from four emotions and four chrysanthemums painted in their colors.
On each left page, four emotion words and their corresponding colors. On the right, four chrysanthemums bloom in those exact colors, white for light, black for shadow, and one changing tone that carries the garden's specific feeling. The gardens move through the full emotional spectrum, from clarity and romance to stillness and quiet strength. Ten mixed gardens follow, where emotions from different gardens combine.
Kiku, the chrysanthemum, flower of longevity, loyalty, and quiet endurance in Japanese culture, moves through every page as your guide.
For those who understand that an inner life, like a garden, requires returning to it.
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INSIDE THE BOOK
Ten mixed gardens follow, emotions from different gardens placed together, to show how they change in each other's presence.
Each garden is four emotions, four colors, four chrysanthemums. Left page names them. Right page shows them blooming.
