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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 ...
Saihō-ji (西芳寺) is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple in Matsuo, Nishikyō Ward, Kyoto, Japan.The temple, which is famed for its moss garden, is commonly referred to as "Koke-dera" (苔寺), meaning "moss temple", while the formal name is "Kōinzan Saihō-ji" (洪隠山西芳寺).
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 ...
It is not a mere garden, but a sacred place where one can practice Zen meditation, and is a uniquely Japanese Zen garden. It is a unique Japanese Zen garden, with the words "Reihseoksenn" (sacred stone spring) engraved on a huge rock, and the rubbings of the year and the name of the stonecutter on both sides, "Doseishi engraved", which was ...
The Yuko-En on the Elkhorn garden features the traditional elements of a Japanese garden with plants and landforms native to Japan and Kentucky. The site's flat land was converted with 1400 truckloads of earth into gentle rising hills with gravel paths and arched bridges leading through a water garden , a Zen rock garden , and past the banks of ...
[1]: 62–63 The Daisen-in is noted for its screen paintings and for its kare-sansui, or dry landscape garden. The screen paintings inside the temple and the garden are attributed to Sōami (d. 1525), a Zen monk, ink painter and follower of the sect of the Amida Buddha. He was particularly known for his use of diluted ink to create delicate and ...
Crane and Turtle Garden of the Konchi-in Konchi-in (金地院) is a Buddhist temple in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto , western Japan. The temple is renowned for its Crane and Turtle Garden .
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.