Shunmyō Masuno is a Japanese monk and a world leading landscape architect.!
Shunmyō Masuno is a Japanese monk and a world leading landscape architect.
Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest.
He is the chief priest of the Sōtō Zen temple Kenkō-ji in Yokohama, and professor at Tama Art University. With his younger brother, Yoshi, he runs his company, Japan Landscape Consultants Ltd., which was founded in 1982 and has completed numerous prestigious projects in Japan and other parts of the world.
Masunos' interest in gardening first developed when he was a child and saw the beauty and serenity of the Japanese gardens in Kyoto.
His interest grew stronger as he went on to study at Tama Art University in western Tokyo and later apprenticed for five years under the famous landscape designer Katsuo Saito.
His style is known for blending modern design with traditional Japanese elements.
He has established Zen gardens in a variety of styles, traditional and contemporary, urban and rural, public and private, which includes temples, offices, hotels, campuses and venues.
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