Japanese garden

 

A catalogue of features typical of the Japanese garden may be drawn up without inquiring deeply into the aesthetic underlying Japanese practice. Typical Japanese gardens have at their center a home from which the garden is viewed. In addition to residential architecture, depending on the archetype, Japanese gardens often contain several of these elements: Water, real or symbolic. A bridge over the water, or stepping stones. Rocks or stone arrangements (or settings). A lantern, typically of stone. A teahouse or pavilion. An enclosure device such as a hedge, fence, or wall of traditional character.

                                    Tenryuji Garden

The Japanese garden evolved from the landscaping of gardens and it developed into an original art form to become an important part of the Japanese culture. History of the Japanese garden goes back to around 7th century and the early documents about the design of gardens are from approximately the 10th century.
Garden appears that they were used for the spiritual rituals and not designed for as stone arrangement for the beauty of gardens.

Buddhism and new cultures were brought in from China and Korea and they played important roles in the development of garden art. They became the philosophical foundation for the original design of the Japanese art of space in the form of gardens.
In the background of the design and rock arrangements of the Japanese garden there is a respect for the nature and abstract representations of the utopian world of the time which were derived from the religion and philosophy. Therefore, the Japanese gardens use natural stones, only without any artificial processing. In the following section we will see the Japanese gardens from different historical period and appreciate their beauty and the designs of arrangements.

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                               Korakuen