On Soundscape In Japanese Tea Garden

Numerous art techniques of sound beauty are involved in Japanese tea garden design and tea ceremony process, which is essential to the form of unique artistic taste for Japanese tea garden, especially the form of " harmony, quiet, clear, lonely" style of art in advanced stage. The method of literature study and case analysis is adopted in the paper to do researches on the unique soundscape creating conception of Japanese tea garden, and the main work includes the following areas:First, the Japanese traditional poetry, music, painting, literature and other kinds of literatures are studied systematically, which is to dig the variety of artistic ideas of sound beauty, explore the unique auditory beauty tastes in Japan and clarify the profound cultural foundation of Japanese auditory beauty. This is the cultural origin of soundscape creating conception of Japanese tea garden.Second, the development and evolution process of Japanese tea culture and its activity places is done up, analyzing the containing sound manifestation with beauty for the organization, arrangement as well as the tea garden space design and landscape configurations of Japanese tea-drinking activities during different historical period. Besides, the Japan tea spirit " Zen and Tea in One " and the inner link relations between Zen witticism and "listening" are to be discovered, clarifying the profound thoughts of the artistic expression of the various sound beauty, from which the inseparable inner link among soundscape creating, Japanese tea garden and tea-drinking activities can be illuminated. This is not only the ideological basis for Japanese tea and tea ceremony process moving towards the artistic state of "harmony, quiet, clear, lonely", but the basic principle to guide the soundscape creating of Japanese tea.Third, from the four aspects of site selection and layout, garden road planning, plant configuration and building management, the containing creating experience of sound beauty in tea garden design system during advanced period of Japan is analyzed, which is the technological base of soundscape creating of Japanese tea garden. Based on typical cases, in the clue of process of tea activities, the analysis of expression means of sound beauty reflected in the tea garden space design, landscape configurations as well as a variety of tea-drinking activities in advanced stage of Japan and their internal relations with the artistic spirit of tea ceremony is conducted, from which the soundscape creating characteristic and aesthetic value of art for Japanese tea garden in advanced stage can be revealed.From the perspective of soundscape, the mining of Japanese tea garden creating idea is carried on systematically, which not only is beneficial to full grasp the creating techniques of Japanese tea garden, but also provides reference for modern landscape design to realize how to use voice element to reach an ideal art realm, and the preliminary based work for launching of traditional gardens soundscape concept comparison between Japan and China can be laid, possessing important theoretical meaning and practical value.