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Kiyosumi Garden: the pond and tea house The Isle. Kiyosumi Garden (清澄庭園, Kiyosumi Teien) is a traditional Japanese stroll garden located in Fukagawa, Tokyo.It was constructed along classic principles in 1878–85, during the Meiji Period, by the shipping financier and industrialist Iwasaki Yatarō. [1]
Isui-en (依水園, Isuien) is a Japanese garden located in Nara, the old capital of Japan near Kyōto. It has been preserved since its creation in the Meiji era, and is the only walking garden (kaiyushiki teien) in Nara. [1] It is divided into two sections, which were originally two separate gardens, and each features a pagoda.
Japanese gardens, typically a section of a larger garden, continue to be popular in the West, and many typical Japanese garden plants, such as cherry trees and the many varieties of Acer palmatum or Japanese maple, are also used in all types of garden, giving a faint hint of the style to very many gardens.
Japanese gardens — designed and created in traditional Japanese style — outside of Japan. For gardens of all styles, traditional 'Japanese gardens' to contemporary 'international styles', located in Japan, see: Category: Gardens in Japan .
They are traditional locations for temizu (handwashing). They also provide light and ventilation. As the floorboards in a traditional Japanese building are usually raised above the ground, a niwa is an area without the wooden flooring; the floorboards surrounding a garden may form a veranda called an engawa.
Suizen-ji Jōju-en (水前寺成趣園) is a tsukiyama [note 1] Japanese garden located within Suizen-ji Park (水前寺公園, Suizen-ji Kōen) in the eastern part of the city of Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. It was built during the Edo period by the Hosokawa clan, the daimyō of Kumamoto Domain. It is commonly known as "Suizenji Park".
Kokoen Garden, Traditional Japanese Garden in Himeji City (EOK article) 34°50′17″N 134°41′23″E / 34.83806°N 134.68972°E / 34.83806; 134 This Hyōgo Prefecture location article is a stub .
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 ...