The Craft of Gardens

For the Chinese contemporary classical opera titled Yuanye, see Savage Land (disambiguation).

The Craft of Gardens
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese園冶
Simplified Chinese园冶
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYuán Yě
Japanese name
Kanji園冶
Hiraganaえんや
Transcriptions
RomanizationEn'ya

Yuanye (Chinese: 園冶), variously translated as The Garden Treatise or The Craft of Gardens, is a 1631 work on garden design by Ji Cheng of the late Ming dynasty. It is now considered the definitive work on garden design of the many produced during that period, and has been labeled as the first monograph dedicated to garden architecture in the world, and among the great masterpieces of garden literature.

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