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Other spellings of tsubo-niwa translate to "container garden", and a tsubo-niwa may differ in size from the tsubo unit of measurement. [1] A number of different terms exist to describe the function of townhouse gardens. Courtyard gardens of all sizes are referred to as naka-niwa, "inner gardens"; [3] gardens referred to as tōri-niwa (通り庭 ...
The Asian Collection area includes a Japanese Pool with traditional garden items [30] University of Illinois Arboretum: Urbana: Illinois: Includes a Japanese arts teaching facility, Japan House, with tea garden (2002), dry or Zen garden (2003). The gardens are free, and open dawn to dusk, but the walled tea garden is closed during icy weather.
National Geographic Traveler Japan. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society. ISBN 978-1-426-20234-6 OCLC 195701863; Japan Society of London. (1989). Proceedings, Issues 112-120. London: Japan Society of London. OCLC 15680299
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.
This list of botanical gardens in Japan is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in Japan. Akatsuka Botanical Garden (Itabashi, Tokyo) Aloha Garden Tateyama (Tateyama, Chiba) Amami Islands Botanical Garden (Amami, Kagoshima) Aoshima Subtropical Botanical Garden (Miyazaki, Miyazaki) Aritaki Arboretum (Koshigaya ...
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 ...
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 .
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.