lessons in living green from traditional Japan Brown, Azby 1956- creator text bibliography ja 2012 monographic eng

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224 p. ill. ; 23 cm. 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 -- Azby Brown. Includes index (p. 222-224). Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-221). Environmentalism Japan History Ecology Sustainable living Manners and customs Japan Social life and customs 1600-1868 Sustainable development Japan History Environmental policy GE199.J3 B76 2012 333.720952 9784805312544 4770030746 2009015550 pucpr 131003 20240930114200.0 eng