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Japanese gardens: zen and beauty
Let’s take a zen break with a focus on Japanese gardens!
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Arranging gardens in Japan is one of the most ancient traditions and they can be found at private homes as well as parks, shrines, or castles. A Japanese garden follows three principles:
- reproducing miniature nature, by representing various landscapes, such as mountains, lakes, rivers, etc.
- symbolizing, which comes from the religious aspects of the first gardens
- using the surrounding landscape or cityscape
A garden is often arranged around a building from which it can be admired. Among the most common elements in gardens, there are rocks, water (pond, river, falls, lake with a central island), sand or gravel with which to make patterns, decorations – like lanterns, pagodas, statues or else – or paths.
There are three main types of gardens. Shizen fûkeishiki represents miniature nature.Karesansui are dry gardens where sand and gravels represents water and mountain rocks for example. Chaniwa are tea gardens, with paths leading to a tea house.
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