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  2. Japanese garden - Wikipedia

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    The moss garden at the Saihō-ji temple in Kyoto, started in 1339. Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien) are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape.

  3. Borrowed scenery - Wikipedia

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    Borrowed scenery (借景; Japanese: shakkei; Chinese: jièjǐng [1]) is the principle of "incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden" found in traditional East Asian garden design. The term borrowing of scenery ("shakkei") is Chinese in origin, and appears in the 17th century garden treatise Yuanye. [2]

  4. Garden design - Wikipedia

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    A formal garden in the Persian and European garden design traditions is rectilinear and axial in design. The equally formal garden, without axial symmetry (asymmetrical) or other geometries, is the garden design tradition of Chinese and Japanese gardens. The Zen garden of rocks, moss and raked gravel is an example. The Western model is an ...

  5. Chinese garden - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and members of the imperial family, built for pleasure and to impress, and the more intimate gardens created by scholars, poets, former government officials, soldiers and merchants, made for reflection and escape from the outside world.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Classical Gardens of Suzhou - Wikipedia

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    According to UNESCO, the gardens of Suzhou "represent the development of Chinese landscape garden design over more than two thousand years," [3] and they are the "most refined form" of garden art. [3] These landscape gardens flourished in the mid-Ming to early-Qing dynasties, resulting in as much as 200 private gardens. [1]

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