spirit of the rocks / Christophe Girot -- Concept gardens / Gunter Nitschke -- Mirei Shigemori and modern Japanese artistic creation / Kendall H. Brown -- Rebel with a cause / Christian Tschumi -- Life and influences -- early years -- broad education -- Some major changes -- scholar and writer -- Ikebana - a lifelong passion -- Chado - the way of tea -- Calligraphy -- Religion -- mature years -- Strategy for renewal -- Rooted in place and culture -- Traditional and new design elements -- lines and colors of nature -- Gardens -- beginning / Kasuga Taisha -- Points of stone -- Lines in concrete -- Planes of gravel and sand -- Mounds and mountains -- Traditional, but new.