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2. Japanese dry garden - Wikipedia

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   The Japanese dry garden (枯山水, karesansui) or Japanese rock garden, often called a Zen garden, is a distinctive style of Japanese garden. It creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in ...

3. Shunmyō Masuno - Wikipedia

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   Japanese garden at Erholungspark Marzahn, Berlin (2003). Shunmyō Masuno (枡野 俊明, Masuno Shunmyō) (born 28 February 1953) [1] is a Japanese monk and garden designer. He is chief priest of the Sōtō Zen temple Kenkō-ji (建功寺), professor at Tama Art University, and president of a design firm that has completed numerous projects in Japan and overseas.

4. Ryōan-ji - Wikipedia

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   The Ryōan-ji garden is considered one of the finest surviving examples of kare-sansui ("dry landscape"), [1] a refined type of Japanese Zen temple garden design generally featuring distinctive larger rock formations arranged amidst a sweep of smooth pebbles (small, carefully selected polished river rocks) raked into linear patterns that ...

5. Wabi-sabi - Wikipedia

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   Japanese gardens started out as very simple open spaces that were meant to encourage kami, or spirits, to visit. During the Kamakura period Zen ideals began to influence the art of garden design in Japan. [8] Temple gardens were decorated with large rocks and other raw materials to build Karesansui or Zen rock gardens. "Their designs imbued the ...

6. List of botanical gardens and arboretums in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   Name Image Affiliation City Coordinates Anderson Japanese Gardens: Rockford: Bethalto Arboretum Bethalto: Cantigny: Wheaton: Century Park Arboretum Vernon Hills

7. Japanese garden - Wikipedia

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   Japanese gardens are designed to be seen from the outside, as in the Japanese rock garden or zen garden; or from a path winding through the garden. Use of rocks: in a Chinese garden, particularly in the Ming dynasty , scholar's rocks were selected for their extraordinary shapes or resemblance to animals or mountains, and used for dramatic effect.

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9. Topiary - Wikipedia

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   The Tsubo-en Zen garden in Lelystad, Netherlands is a private modern Japanese Zen (karesansui, dry rock) garden that makes extensive use of so-called O-karikomi combined with Hako-zukuri (see above). All seasons close-up of the Tsubo-en (Netherlands) O-karikomi, hako-zukuri topiary. Gardens of the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, France