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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. Ryōan-ji - Wikipedia

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    It belongs to the Myōshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Kinkaku-ji - Wikipedia

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    The garden complex is an excellent example of Muromachi period garden design. [12] The Muromachi period is considered to be a classical age of Japanese garden design. [11] The correlation between buildings and its settings were greatly emphasized during this period. [11] It was an artistic way to integrate the structure within the landscape.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Yuko-En on the Elkhorn - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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