Borrowed scenery

Borrowed scenery
Borrowed scenery
	Borrowed scenery in the style of Song and Ming Dynasty gardens located at the Zhishan Garden
Chinese name
Chinese	借景
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	jièjǐng
Japanese name
Kanji	借景
Romanization
Transcriptions
Romanization	shakkei

Borrowed scenery (借景; Japanese: shakkei; Chinese: jièjǐng^[1]) is the principle of "incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden" found in traditional East Asian garden design. The term borrowing of scenery ("shakkei") is Chinese in origin, and appears in the 17th century garden treatise Yuanye.^[2]

*Shakkei* example of Hikone Castle in the background of Genkyū Garden (玄宮園)

^ Stepanova, Jekaterina (2010). Kraushaar, Frank (ed.). Eastwards: Western views on East Asian culture. Bern: Peter Lang. p. 162. ISBN 978-3-0343-0040-7.
^ Kuitert, Wybe (2002). Themes in the history of Japanese garden art. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-8248-2312-2.

[stepanova162-1] Stepanova, Jekaterina (2010). Kraushaar, Frank (ed.). Eastwards: Western views on East Asian culture. Bern: Peter Lang. p. 162. ISBN 978-3-0343-0040-7.

[2] Kuitert, Wybe (2002). Themes in the history of Japanese garden art. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-8248-2312-2.

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