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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 ...
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 ...
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In Japan, a tsukubai (蹲踞) is a washbasin provided at the entrance to a holy place for visitors to purify themselves by the ritual washing of hands and rinsing of the mouth. [1] This type of ritual cleansing is the custom for guests attending a tea ceremony [ 1 ] or visiting the grounds of a Buddhist temple . [ 2 ]
Evergreen plants are "the bones of the garden" in Japan. [2] Though a natural-seeming appearance is the aim, Japanese gardeners often shape their plants, including trees, with great rigour. An island in Kōraku-en gardens, Okayama, with azaleas in flower
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After Enshu’s death in 1647, the family split into two lines, one headed by Enshu’s son, the other by Masayuki Kobori, Enshu’s younger brother. Kobori Masayuki served as a senior official to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the shogun responsible for unifying Japan. [7] Tea Ceremony at Gokokuji Temple in Tokyo by the Kobori Enshu Ryu School