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  2. Sakuteiki - Wikipedia

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    The Sakuteiki was written in a time during which the placing of stones was the most important part of gardening, and it literally defined the art of garden making, using the expression ishi wo tateru koto (石を立てること, literally, "the act of standing up stones") to mean not only stone placement but garden making itself. It advises the ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Shinjuku Gyo-en - Wikipedia

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    Shinjuku Gyo-en (新宿御苑, literally 'Shinjuku Imperial Garden') or Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden is a large public garden in Shinjuku and Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally a residence of the Naitō family in the Edo period. It later became a garden under the management of Japan Imperial Household Agency.

  6. International General Certificate of Secondary Education

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    Most IGCSE subjects offer a choice of tiered examinations: Core or Extended papers (in Cambridge International), and Foundation or Higher papers (in Edexcel). This is designed to make IGCSE suitable for students with varying levels of ability. In some subjects, IGCSE can be taken with or without coursework.

  7. Culture of Japan - Wikipedia

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    A primary design principle of a traditional garden is the creation of the landscape based on, or at least greatly influenced by, the style of three-dimensional monochrome ink landscape painting known as sumi-e or suibokuga; as such, garden landscaping is elevated to the status of an artform in Japan.

  8. Wabi-sabi - Wikipedia

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    A Japanese tea house which reflects the wabi-sabi aesthetic in Kenroku-en (兼六園) Garden Wabi-sabi tea bowl, Azuchi–Momoyama period, 16th century In traditional Japanese aesthetics , wabi-sabi ( 侘び寂び ) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. [ 2 ]

  9. List of important publications in physics - Wikipedia

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