Japanese+Gardens

This page is about the beauty and information on the Japanese Gardens

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Some Japanese Gardens are just for show but others can teach you many things. Beauty, Grace, Patient and many more.

Here is Link to what Japanese Gardens may look like. The music in the video is used to relax the soul and mind. Making every thing at ease. The blend of the beauty and calmness of the gardens and the soothing music, creates a relaxing notion to the body and mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly50uuzAtLo

[|c0c9scd.jpg][|c0c9scd.jpg][|c0c9scd.jpg] ^ These are examples of what a Japanese garden may look like. Creating a garden like these takes a lot of patients and care. Some of these gardens can be found in Buddhist temples and on large estates. In the waters they would have the beautiful Koi fish swim around.

Some of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, //karesansui//. The tradition of the Tea masters has produced highly refined Japanese gardens of quite another style, evoking rural simplicity. In Japanese culture, garden-making is a high art, intimately related to the linked arts of calligraphy and ink painting. Since the end of the 19th century, Japanese gardens have also been adapted to Western settings. Japanese gardens were developed under the influences of the distinctive and stylized Chinese gardens. One of the great interest for the historical development of the Japanese garden, bonseki, bonsai and related arts is the c. 1300 Zen monk Kokan Shiren and his rhymeprose essay //Rhymeprose on a Miniature Landscape Garden//. The tradition of Japanese gardening was historically passed down from //sensei// to apprentice. In recent decades this has been supplemented by various trade schools. The opening words of Zōen's //Illustrations for designing mountain, water and hillside field landscapes// are "If you have not received the oral transmissions, you must not make gardens" and its closing admonition is "You must never show this writing
 * Japanese gardens**(日本庭園 nihon teien) that is, gardens in traditional Japanese style, can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, and at historical landmarks such as Buddhist temples and old castles.