By Mirei Shigemori

Fukuchi-in 1973, Koya-san
Stone Garden by MIREI SHIGEMORI

If Shigemori was best known as a landscape designer, an artist in the placement of stones, it is worth noting that his accomplishments extended to being a scholar and practitioner of painting, the tea ceremony and ikebana. His fascination with contemporary Western art may have underlined some of the more daring innovations he made during his long career.