Japanese Gardens, Rock Gardens, Dry Landscapes
Japanese Garden
What Is A Japanese Garden?
I love Japanese Gardens and have visited many in the United States and in Japan. I created this page as a resource for those who, like me, love Japanese gardens, are thinking about creating a garden or simply want to know more about them. I have included links to websites with information about popular Japanese Gardens, websites with photos of Japanese Gardens, instructions and materials for creating your own gardens and links to additional information.
Japanese gardens are places of tranquil beauty where man and nature are allowed to be as one, a place that creates an easy translation between outside and inside. The aesthetic qualities are evident even to the most casual observer, but the gardens provide reflective qualities as well.
"The traditional Japanese Garden combines characteristics which have been developed over many centuries and which reflect the differing influences prevailing during particular periods of history. Some persons who have visited many such gardens deny the existence of a "typical traditional Japanese garden" claiming that the gardens they have seen differ greatly one from another. However, this is comparable to stating that an 'average Japanese' does not exist because each Japanese is so different. Just as most Japanese share characteristics which can be identified, so it is possible in most cases to identify a traditional Japanese garden by analyzing its general appearance and savoring its atmosphere." -Dr. Koichi Kawana
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- The Japanese Garden ~ :Symbolism & Esthetics
IN THE TRADITIONAL JAPANESE GARDEN - AN INTRODUCTION by Dr. Koichi Kawana
More Information About The Japanese Garden
- Japanese Gardens - Elements
The gardens pictured on this page-most of them located in Kyoto and its environs-are given reasonably full coverage on this web site. Clicking on a thumbnail image will take you to an introductory page from which you can take a tour of the garden, co - Japanese garden - Wikipedia
Japanese garden Stone lantern amid plants. The shape of the roof will trap and hold a picturesque cap of snow.Japanese gardens (Kanji 日本庭園, nihon - JGarden - Home
The Japanese Garden Database is intended as a repository of information on the historical gardens of Japan. It is a non-profit, educational web site that seeks to provide information on a selection of outstanding examples of garden art found in Japa - JAPANESE GARDEN - Go Japan Go
Japanese Garden - Guide to Japanese garden: famous Japanese gardens, Japanese gardens pictures, Japanese garden in Japan and Japanese garden styles.
Have You Ever Visited A Japanese Garden?
Books For Your Library about Japanese Gardens
List your favorite Books about Japanese Gardens.
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Japanese Garden From You Tube
What Is Your Favorite Feature Of A Japanese Garden?
Hill Gardens, Dry Gardens, and Tea Gardens
Garden design has been an important Japanese art for many centuries. Traditional Japanese landscape gardens can be broadly categorized into three types, Tsukiyama Gardens (hill gardens), Karesansui Gardens (dry gardens) and Chaniwa Gardens (tea gardens). Japan-guide.com
Photos Of Japanese Gardens
- Absolute Japan - Photographs of rock zen gardens
Japanese Photo gallery - images of Buddhist zen gardens in Kyoto
What Is Your Experience With Japanese Gardens? - I want to hear from you
AUTHOR@john-doornkamp: Thank you John. I agree about the elements.
Superb subject for a lens, very well handled. Full of fun, information, lovely photographs. An inspiration. Hard to vote on one element of a Japanese garden because in reality the senses result from the combination of all of the garden elements brought together as one.
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@LauraHofman: Thank you, FlowerChick!
What a beautiful lens! I love Japanese gardens too...so peaceful and relaxing.
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@Pat Goltz: Glad you found a Japanese Garden. Good to know there is one in Phoenix!
Japanese gardens are the most beautiful gardens in the world, in my opinion. I looked for a long time to find one in Arizona, and finally found one in Phoenix. Someday, I hope to have a small Japanese garden in my yard, but it won't be anytime soon, unfortunately.
I have visited several Japanese Gardens, but my favorite is in Buenos Aires! Greetings from 'the land of eternal spring'!
I love the Japanese Garden in my hometown so much. It is stunningly beautiful. I wish I could go there everyday and just admire the scenery. This is a great lens. I added you to my featured lens list on my japanese tea garden lens. Thanks for sharing this
I love Japanese gardens, but haven't been in a lot of them. In my youth I saw the one in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park (in the 1950's) and at Huntington Library. Both were beautiful.
I've always loved Japanese gardens and wished I could build one for our yard. Beautiful photos and ideas for creating Japanese gardens.
This is an interesting lens. A couple of years ago I helped my friend create a Japanese garden and it looked really good. Thanks for sharing this.
How beautiful, love your lens and all the info and pics!
Interesting lens...chuck full of information. Thanks for sharing....Cercis
I love botanical gardens of all kinds but the Japanese gardens are extra special. Thank you for sharing this tranquil space! :)
Beautiful photos. I have never been in a Japanese garden, but would love to.
I enjoyed seeing these beautiful Japanese Gardens Pictures and reading about them. Thank you.
Such pretty pictures. Thanks for sharing them here.
I was born in Japan, and went back to visit so I saw lots of them there. And I have been to Huntington Gardens several times which has stunning Japanese Gardens. Also, have visited the Japanese Sunken Gardens in San Antonio, Tx many times!
Excellent lens, I love the photos of the many beautiful gardens.
fine places to relax and slow down a bit
Japanese gardening is a great passion of ours. Thank you for creating this wonderful lens.
I was glad to see Fort Worth's garden on your list - it's a good one. San Antonio has an interesting variation on a Japanese/Chinese
garden, set deep in an old stone quarry. And Fredricksberg has a beautiful garden room, a gift from Japan to the Nimitz WWII museum. Nice Lens!
Such lovely places. Wish I could live in one
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@carredsal: Carredsak, I hope you see a Japanese Garden sometime soon.
I really enjoyed your lens. I spent part of my honeymoon in Sydney and we accidently came across a gloriously serene Japanese garden. It was a long time ago now, but I treasure the beautiful photos.
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@anonymous: Grace, thanks for sharing your memory!
This is a lovely lens....:) I hope to someday see a real Japanese garden....
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@SciTechEditorDave: Thanks, Dave
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@teamlane: Thank you for blessing my lens!
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@steveffeo lm: We could have a contest for the best "vegetable" Japanese Garden! Let me know if you make a lens. Isn't that Golden Temple beautiful!!
Back what seems like 3 lifetimes ago I went to Japan and got to visit the Golden temple in Kyoto I remember going to the top of a mountain and visiting some other temples. Now I ficus on vegetable gardens but there is a nice calm Japanese garden in my future. Great lens
A lovely lens
This is an awesome lens. Thank-you for putting together such a nice one.
WoW. Amazing lens : )
Well Done. 5* from me.
Keep it up :)
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What a neat lens! I've never been to one...but I sure would like to see one. Love your pictures!
Great lens!
Trixi
Beautiful and perfect for granddaughter's new lapbook on Japan! Thank you!
Hi, Pat.
I just love Japanese gardens. There is so much harmony, peace, and a natural flow from one element to the next. It is soothing to the soul to walk or sit in a well-planned Japanese garden.
Thank you for your kind words on my Feline Furballs lens. The love for Niko is still there. :)
Nice lens! I've been to many Japanese gardens in *Japan*, for instance, in Narita and in Sapporo in addition to those in Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka. Here in the U.S., you can find nice gardens in San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco--and that's just here in the North California coastal area. Many Japanese movies feature their gardens as part of the plot or action. So much drama in such a subtle presentation. Very Zen!
Thanks for a cool lens!
At the Denver Botanic Gardens there is a Japanese Garden - I love to go there to meditate! Nice lens.
Nice lens. I love Japanese gardens and most things Japanese. World of Netsuke
as a young girl I would go almost everyday to the SF Golden Gate Park Japanese Garden...the love for this place has influenced all my gardens. 5*s
It'd be neat to find some sort of directory of Japanese gardens. Where can I go in my area to find one?
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