Just Enough : lessons in living green from traditional Japan. / txt
Azby Brown.
- 224 p. ill. ; 23 cm. book
Includes index (p. 222-224).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-221).
Table of contents: preface to the new edition 4 -- foreword 7 -- Part I: field and forest -- the farmer from kai province 18 -- rice cultivation 72 -- rice production and its byproducts 80 -- thatching a roof 82 -- building materials and their virtues 86 learning from field and forest 88 -- Part II: the sustainable city -- The carpenter of edo 110 -- Ground transportation 164 -- learning from the sustainable city 166 -- Part III: a life of restraint -- the samurai edo 176 -- daimyo estate 208 -- learning from a life of restraint 210 -- acknowledgement 218 -- bibliography 219 -- index 222 --
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Environmentalism--History.--Japan Ecology Sustainable living. Manners and customs Japan--Social life and customs--1600-1868. Sustainable development--History.--Japan Environmental policy