Shummyo MASUNO

   

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Landscape designers of Japan

Shunmyo Masuno is one of the greatest landscape designers of Japan, a key figure of the modern Japanese rock garden art. He is professor of Tama Art University, founder of Japan Landscape Consultants Ltd., Zen priest and the 18th generation of Head Priest of Kenko-ji Temple. He ranked among the 100 most honored Japanese celebrities by the Time magazine. He won the National Merit Award conferred by the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, and the National Grand Prize by the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture.

As one of the most outstanding landscape designers in Japan with rich experience of more than thirty years in landscape designing, Shunmyo Masuno has inherited the essence of Japan’s traditional art of gardening. His works well showcase the quintessence of Japan’s classical gardens, and are filled with natural beauty. Taking landscape creation as an outlet for expressing his inner world, Shunmyo Masuno’s works are flavored with Zen, typically known for their beauty of calmness, quietness and impressiveness and are often appreciated for their distinctively charming philosophy of life.