Comments on: Context sensitive landscape and garden design in Japan, by Haruko Seki/Studio Lasso Ltd

By: Tian Yuan

Tian Yuan — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:29:24 +0000

I will tell you a good way which is to see their skin. It does work very well to distinguish male. Korean male’s skin is whiter than Chinese ones’.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 07:24:12 +0000

Yes, I meant the shoes. I asked a Japanese person about the easiest visual way to tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese people and the answer was ‘clothes’, so I am trying to learn about them.

By: Tian Yuan

Tian Yuan — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 07:04:16 +0000

Do you mean the shoes? They are common in China and always have different kinds of colour. Many girls like this style even though I think it is not elegant enough.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:12:03 +0000

What about those pink Crocs with green frills – are they popular in China?

By: Tian Yuan

Tian Yuan — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:22:58 +0000

Yes, you are right from my personal experience. I have Chinese and Korean friends.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:32:33 +0000

I have heard that before but have not yet learned to recognize the differences between Chinese and Japanese eyes. Are Korean eyes, as I have heard Korean gardens described, half-Chinese and half-Japanese?

By: Tian Yuan

Tian Yuan — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:44:36 +0000

Re Tom, I am sorry that their clothes may not be the main evidnece for their nationality. They are not Chinese. I judge their nationality according to their eyes.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:56:26 +0000

Here are some context-sensitive questions for Yuan: am I right that the girls’ clothes indicate that they are not Chinese; could you tell that their faces are not Chinese; could you tell whether they are Korean or Japanese?

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:44:26 +0000

No I don’t think there a Pritzker Prize for Landscape either…Perhaps the Pritzer family will run an inaugural prize in 2011? Afterall Luis Barrigan considered himself a landscape architect…[ http://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/1980/bio.html ]

Not sure why I thought you had red hair? [ http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/04/10/landscape-and-garden-interpretation/ ] I guess I wasn’t very observant.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:59:43 +0000

Not sure, but I do not think there is a Pritzker prize for landscape architecture. Nor do I think my hair is red or reddish. It used to be blond but is pretty thin and mousey these days.