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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. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese ...

  3. Japanese dry garden - Wikipedia

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    Japanese dry garden. Ryōan-ji (late 16th century) in Kyoto, Japan, a famous example of a Zen garden. A mountain, waterfall, and gravel "river" at Daisen-in (1509–1513) 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 ...

  4. Wabi-sabi - Wikipedia

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    Japanese gardens started out as very simple open spaces that were meant to encourage kami, or spirits, to visit. During the Kamakura period Zen ideals began to influence the art of garden design in Japan. [8] Temple gardens were decorated with large rocks and other raw materials to build Karesansui or Zen rock gardens. "Their designs imbued the ...

  5. List of Japanese gardens in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Georgia. Includes a small Japanese garden begun in Piedmont Park in the 1960s before the Atlanta Botanical Garden was chartered. Bainbridge Public Library. Bainbridge Island. Washington. Website, Japanese garden on the west side of the library designed in 1998 [1] Bellevue Botanical Garden. Bellevue. Washington.

  6. Ryōan-ji - Wikipedia

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    The Ryōan-ji garden is considered one of the finest surviving examples of kare-sansui ("dry landscape"), [1] a refined type of Japanese Zen temple garden design generally featuring distinctive larger rock formations arranged amidst a sweep of smooth pebbles (small, carefully selected polished river rocks) raked into linear patterns that ...

  7. Japanese Gardens (Hayward, California) - Wikipedia

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    The garden was designed by Kimio Kimura. [2] It follows Japanese garden design principles, using California native stone and plants. [1] The garden contains over 70 plant species including mondo grasses, Japanese black pine, cedar, juniper, and rhododendron. [2] No stains were used on the wood constructions. [1]