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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. 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. 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 ...

  5. Taizō-in - Wikipedia

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    Taizō-in (退蔵院) is the oldest sub-temple (tatchū (塔頭)) of the Myōshin-ji Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple, situated in the northwest of Kyoto, Japan. It was founded by Zen priest Muinsoin in 1404. The original temple buildings were burned during the Ōnin War (1467-1477), and were later rebuilt. Taizō-in is well known for its two gardens.

  6. Daisen-in - Wikipedia

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    Despite later interpretations on the creation of the Daisen-in's rock garden, its creation was not primarily related to religious Zen: it is a good example of a Chinese style landscape, done as painting in three dimensions. [3] Although the garden is attributed to monk-painter Soami, there is no written evidence that he was also a gardener.

  7. Kinkaku-ji - Wikipedia

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    The garden complex is an excellent example of Muromachi period garden design. [13] The Muromachi period is considered to be a classical age of Japanese garden design. [12] The correlation between buildings and its settings were greatly emphasized during this period. [12] It was an artistic way to integrate the structure within the landscape.

  8. Zenshūyō - Wikipedia

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    The typical Zen garan, of which Kenchō-ji's is a good example, begins with a gate followed by another, larger one , the main hall (the butsuden), the lecture hall (hattō), and the chief abbot's residence (hōjō) all aligned more or less on a north to south axis, with the bath house (yokushitsu) and the sūtra repository to its east, and the ...

  9. Saihō-ji (Kyoto) - Wikipedia

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    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).

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