Japanese Zen Garden
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Japanese zen garden. The japanese rock garden or dry landscape garden often called a zen garden 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 water. At the base of a dry waterfall place a layer of gravel or white sand to make a dry stream advises the dictionary of japanese architectural and art historical terminology. Light colored gravel and large weathered stones are contained within a wall and are carefully groomed with a rake to resemble faint waves of water. One of the finest examples and one of the best known of all japanese gardens is ryōan ji in kyoto.
The most notable garden style invented in this period was the zen garden or japanese rock garden. Photograph by kimubert via flickr. The japanese rock garden 枯山水 karesansui or dry landscape garden often called a zen garden 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 water. It is composed of white sand carefully raked to suggest water and fifteen rocks carefully arranged like small islands.
This garden is just 9 meters wide and 24 meters long. The japanese rock garden or dry landscape garden often called a zen garden 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 water. Zen gardens also called japanese rock gardens appeal to people who like carefully controlled settings of raked sand or rocks and precisely clipped shrubs.