Japanese garden

The Japanese garden (日本庭園), resulting from the ancient tradition Japan ease, can be found in the private houses, the parks of the cities, the Buddhist Temple S or the tomb X shintoïstes, or in the old men Château X typical. The Jardin Zen is the Japanese garden most known in occident, but also in Japan.

The typical Japanese gardens have several of these elements, realities or symbolic systems:

of water
an island
a driving bridge in the island
of the rocks
a lantern, traditionally of stone
a living room of The or a house

The Japanese garden often corresponds to the one of these five types:

Tsubo-niwa : Interior garden-court
Karesansui: The garden Zen
Cha-niwa: The garden of the (with Tsukubai)
Kaiyushiki: The garden walk, dawdling, to discover during one stroll.
Shakkei-zukuri :Borrowed landscape, garden of contemplation, to observe of only one place

Dry garden

Many temples Zen have a garden representing a dry landscape (karesansui 枯山水). In these gardens, water is absent, but it is evoked by the use of gravel. The rocks chosen for their intriguing form, foams and the small shrubs characterize these gardens. The garden of the temple of Ryoan-ji, with Kyōto is particularly famous.

Other gardens use similar rocks for decoration. These rocks can come from various parts far away from Japan. Moreover, the Bamboo S, the persistent ones such as the black Pine Japanese or of null and void such as the maple, push on a carpet of Fougère S and foam S.

Garden of shade

Technique of Shakkei-zukuri

The technique of Shakkei-zukuri (借景造), borrowed landscapes , is a Japanese technique used by the Paysagiste S to give the impression of a garden to infinite dimensions, the Japanese gardens being generally smaller than the Chinese gardens. Trees dissimulate the real limits of the garden and the surrounding modern structures, thus the mountains located beyond the garden seem to belong to him and one thinks of being able to go there by the multiple ways which are lost behind the rocks.

External bonds

To create its Japanese garden
virtual Exposure on the Japanese gardens

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