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The history of Japanese gardens doesn't actually start in Japan. The cultural home and the bedrock of the history of Japanese gardens is actually from China.
Many hundreds of years ago the Chinese started designing recreational gardens and as they developed news of these structures and their ingredients spread.
Is is not difficult to imagine how impressed China's neighbours became with their aptitude to be technological innovators and their spectacular gardens were no different. The history of Japanese gardens can be traced to it's starting period in the Han Dynasty, the Japanese imported these garden ideas from China during this period.
Emperor Wu Di who lived from 140-87 BC first created a garden containing 3 small islands. These were meant to represent the Isles Of The Immortals who were considered to be Toaist gods, this set a trend for all gardens to concentrate on replicating the land of legend.
Today miic nature but this was not the case during the Han period. The only gardens built were only to display mythical lands and landscapes. So there was a good deal of imagination being used! The first hill and pond garden in Japan was established in the early 600's AD when the Chinese Emperor Yang Di enjoyed relations with Japan at his instigation.
The Japanese responded to these overtures and sent an envoy to China who was a man called Ono no Imoko. He became immersed in China and it's culture and met with the emperor on many many occasions. Upon his return to Japan he took with him much of what he had learnt and the art of gardening was just one subject hewas keen to relate to the Japanese people. Another idea imported to Japan at the same time was Buddhism. A seemingly small and very significant step in the history of Japanese gardens.
There are a number of era's in the history of these types of gardens and the most modern nfluenc ending in the early 14century. The Zen influence into the history of the gardens of Japan can be traced to the period 1393 to 1558AD as a more simplistic and spiritual type of garden was designed and built by many people.
To write about all the twists and turns in the history of Japanese gardens in a short article is pretty difficult to do and would not really do the subject justice. I do hope this article has given you some pointers on their rich tradition and heritage.
To learn more please take a look at this FREE video on the subject at: http://www.japzengardens.org/freevideo.htm.
Russell Chard is a Japanese garden enthusiast based in the UK. He can be contacted via e mail at: zeniboltd@aol.com.
You can view his FREE Japanese garden video at: http://www.japzengardens.org/freevideo.htm.
Abingdon Pottery
Abingdon Pottery as artware was produced for only 17 years from 1934 through 1950. Art pottery was produced by The Abingdon Sanitary Manufacturing Company of Abingdon, Illinois, as a way of supplementing lagging production of its main line of products - plumbing fixtures - during The Great Depression.
The artware ceased being produced once production had again ramped up for plumbing fixtures in the post- World War II housing boom. At that time, the company, re-named in 1945 to Abingdon Potteries, Inc. and still located in the town of Abingdon in rural Illinois, was sold to Briggs Manufacturing in 1951.
The original company dates to 1908. With the rise of indoor plumbing, Abingdon pioneered some of the first colored fixtures and self-ventilating toilets in the 1920's. The company was led much of the time by president Raymond E. Bidwell. The Chicago World's Fair chose Abingdon fixtures exclusively for its facilities in 1933.
It was in that time frame that the company decided to explore the design and manufacture of art pottery. Designer Frances Moody, engineer Leslie Moody, and designer Eric Herslet are credited for making this new product line a success.
Another company president, John M. Lewis, held that the products should exhibit an appeal based solely upon their looks and functionality - not based upon the fame or reputation of any designer. He also saw to it that production of any particular design was limited in number, thus adding to collector value later on. A surprisingly large number of Abingdon pottery designs are original, and not direct copies of others.
Abingdon art pottery featured art deco and some classical design. The glazed colors of pink, blue, green, and grey were commonplace on such items as vases, bowls, ash trays, cookie jars, pitchers, urns, book ends, and even chess pieces.
Most were marked "ABINGDON USA" in ink on the bottoms. In addition, they usually had mold numbers stamped into the surfaces. Edges around the bottoms were often ground, and some surviving pieces still exhibit their original foil stickers from the manufacturer. Genuine Abingdon pottery is almost as translucent as hard-paste porcelain (although it is decidedly not porcelain), and light-weight.
The same durability as was known for its plumbing ceramics was present in the company's art ceramics. Georgia clay, South Dakota feldspar, and Illinois silica, were glazed with nearly 200 varieties and colors. Most valuable were the multi-colored pieces and those that featured hand painting (begun in the 1940's). Certain pieces of the "Fire Red" color, which is more orange in color than red, are also deemed valuable.
It is the density and durability that sets Abingdon pottery apart from subsequent creations by Japanese and other sources. The fine quality of the heavy and dense vitreous clay resists hairline cracks and breakage. Abingdon glazes, however, were sometimes prone to crazing.
In all, over 6 million art pottery pieces were created. First sold in gift shops, Abingdon pottery was eventually marketed in fine department stores of the era, such as Gimbals, Marshall Field, and Wanamaker's. Today, Abingdon pottery is highly collectible and also found in a number of museums in the Midwest.
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help, i need some advice?
i am taking the following classes next year (sophomore year):
english ii honors, spanish 3, global history ii honors, geometry, gym, and biology.
besides those classes, i can take an elective such as baking or pottery, or i can take a second language. i want to go to a very good college, so i thought taking a language might look more impressive. but i'm afraid if i take french or italian, it will be too similar and it will be difficult to keep track.
what should i do?
available languages: mandarin, japanese, french, italian, german, latin
Sounds to me, like you are taking all the classes allready that will stand out to college recruiters.
I would take a class that you would enjoy. (baking, pottery, etc.)
It certainly won't look bad to a college to have one elective class with all the other "college prep" ones that you already have.
I think it would give you a nice break from your hard classes, and maybe be able to booster your GPA
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