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Book: Gardens of Japan, 1928,
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List of historic Japanese garden designers

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Daitokuji-Sahei. Furuta-Oribe. Gomizuno-o, Emperor. Hideyoshi. Honnami Koyetsu. Kanamori Sowa. Kobori-Enshu Matsudaira Yorishige. Matsunaga-Teitoku. Matsumoto, Gardener. Muso-Kokushi. Ogawa [Jihei] -Hakuyo. Sen-no-Rikyu. Sesshyu. So-Ami (Soami) Tenyu. Tsuda Nagatada. Watanabe, Gardener [Note: Japan's historic garden designers were men of wealth and taste, including emperors, shoguns, daimyos, samurai, other noblemen and, above all, Buddhist priests. They were not designers in the modern sense of people who work with their hands as draughtsmen and builders. Instead, they guided the work of a wide range of specialist craftsmen. TT]