Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Sharawadgi or sharawaggi indicates in the West a certain irregularity in landscape design or town planning. It originates from the Japanese term shara'aji or share'aji (洒落味、しゃれ味) used for symbolism in design. Merchants from the Dutch East India Company brought the term to Europe at the end of the seventeenth century together with lacquer cabinets and screens acquired by King William III of England and Queen Mary II of England. Sharawadgi as a term in written discourse was introduced in England by Sir William Temple (1628-1699) in his essay Upon the Gardens of Epicurus written in 1685 and published in 1690. Temple was an English ambassador residing in The Hague and associating with the King and Queen. He took the exotic, non-symmetric landscapes depicted on such imported art work as supporting his personal preference for irregular landscape scenery. He had seen such irregularity in Dutch gardens where a discourse was on about naturalness in landscapes, planned or not. As a result of his introducing of sharawadgi, Temple is considered the originator of the English landscape garden movement.Joseph Addison took up this discourse (1712), without direct reference to sharawadgi whence the original meaning got lost. In England the term reappears with Alexander Pope (1724) and Horace Walpole (1750), to be picked up again by Nikolaus Pevsner who brought sharawadgi to the field of town planning. Sharawadgi was defined in the 1980s as "Artful irregularity in garden design and, more recently, in town planning."In the mean time in Japan share'aji continued to be used in kimono fashion critique where it refers to the symbolism of motifs featuring in kimono dress and matching these to time, place and occasion."@en }
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- Sharawadgi abstract "Sharawadgi or sharawaggi indicates in the West a certain irregularity in landscape design or town planning. It originates from the Japanese term shara'aji or share'aji (洒落味、しゃれ味) used for symbolism in design. Merchants from the Dutch East India Company brought the term to Europe at the end of the seventeenth century together with lacquer cabinets and screens acquired by King William III of England and Queen Mary II of England. Sharawadgi as a term in written discourse was introduced in England by Sir William Temple (1628-1699) in his essay Upon the Gardens of Epicurus written in 1685 and published in 1690. Temple was an English ambassador residing in The Hague and associating with the King and Queen. He took the exotic, non-symmetric landscapes depicted on such imported art work as supporting his personal preference for irregular landscape scenery. He had seen such irregularity in Dutch gardens where a discourse was on about naturalness in landscapes, planned or not. As a result of his introducing of sharawadgi, Temple is considered the originator of the English landscape garden movement.Joseph Addison took up this discourse (1712), without direct reference to sharawadgi whence the original meaning got lost. In England the term reappears with Alexander Pope (1724) and Horace Walpole (1750), to be picked up again by Nikolaus Pevsner who brought sharawadgi to the field of town planning. Sharawadgi was defined in the 1980s as "Artful irregularity in garden design and, more recently, in town planning."In the mean time in Japan share'aji continued to be used in kimono fashion critique where it refers to the symbolism of motifs featuring in kimono dress and matching these to time, place and occasion.".