Inside and Outside

Shiro Nakane of Nakane and Associates.

The preeminent landscape architect of our time. He and his family have renovated or restored the majority of the oldest and largest Zen gardens in Japan including Ryoan-ji, Kinkaku-ji, and Saiho-ji. They've also designed and built a number of contemporary Tea Gardens, Temple and Shrine Gardens and Karesnasui (dry landscape) Gardens.

The possessor must be the best designer... he sees his situation in all seasons, he observes a thousand hints that must escape a person who in a few days sketches out a pretty picture.
- Horace Walpole