The Kingdom of Green

$62.50

Yasutomo Ebisu & Rumiko Suzuki | Seigensha, 2023

Embark on a journey to visit some of England’s most treasured gardens and the gifted gardeners who shaped them.

Over a number of years, photographer Yasutomo Ebisu and editor/writer Rumiko Suzuki visited more than a dozen English gardens for the Japanese lifestyle magazine ku:nel. This book brings together the features they published on those visits, which began with Suzuki’s desire to encounter gardeners blessed with the “green fingers” that are so prized in the UK. These artists tend to their gardens while carrying on the spirit of their predecessors—the designers who transformed English gardens from formal geometric layouts into spaces in harmony with nature, for example, or the Englishwomen who elevated gardening to the realm of high art.

Suzuki was moved by the gardens’ ability to evolve and change while also retaining their timelessness, and this compilation of her work with Ebisu perfectly captures the vibrancy and beauty of these otherworldly havens that have endured and will continue to endure, now and always.

146 pp | 22 x 29 cm | B&W and Color Illustrations | Hardbound | Japanese

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