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Japanese Gardens are among the most beautiful in the world Japanese gardens in the custom of Japan can be found at private houses, in neighborhood or city parks, at Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines, and at historic landmarks such as old castles. Many of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are Zen gardens. The tradition of the Tea masters has produced highly refined Japanese gardens of quite another style, evoking rural simplicity. Typical Japanese gardens contain many of these features, real or symbolic: Water An island A bridge A lantern A teahouse Japanese gardens might fall into one of these styles: Strolling gardens, for looking at from a path Sitting gardens, for thinking from one place, such as the tiny tsuboniwa found in machiya (traditional wooden townhouses). Many Zen temples feature a garden in the karesansui (dry landscape) style. These have no water, but usually invoke a feeling of water using pebbles and carefully raked gravel or sand. Rocks chosen for their intriguing shapes and figures, mosses, and low bush's symbolize the karesansui style. Other gardens also use similar rocks for ornamentation. Some of these come from remote parts of Japan. In addition, bamboos and related plants, evergreens including Japanese black pine, and such deciduous trees as maples grow above a carpet of ferns and mosses. Shakkei,or borrowed scenery, is a technique Japanese gardeners use to make a modest garden seem more spacious. By judiciously planting shrubs to impede the view of nearby constructions, they promote the viewer to look up toward the mountains, and imagine them as part of the garden.
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Japanese Gardens are among the most beautiful in the world

Japanese gardens in the custom of Japan can be found at private houses, in neighborhood or city parks, at Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines, and at historic landmarks such as old castles. Many of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are Zen gardens. The tradition of the Tea masters has produced highly refined Japanese gardens of quite another style, evoking rural simplicity.

Typical Japanese gardens contain many of these features, real or symbolic:

Water
An island
A bridge
A lantern
A teahouse

Japanese gardens might fall into one of these styles:

Strolling gardens, for looking at from a path
Sitting gardens, for thinking from one place, such as the tiny tsuboniwa found in machiya (traditional wooden townhouses).

Many Zen temples feature a garden in the karesansui (dry landscape) style. These have no water, but usually invoke a feeling of water using pebbles and carefully raked gravel or sand. Rocks chosen for their intriguing shapes and figures, mosses, and low bush's symbolize the karesansui style.

Other gardens also use similar rocks for ornamentation. Some of these come from remote parts of Japan. In addition, bamboos and related plants, evergreens including Japanese black pine, and such deciduous trees as maples grow above a carpet of ferns and mosses.

Shakkei,or borrowed scenery, is a technique Japanese gardeners use to make a modest garden seem more spacious. By judiciously planting shrubs to impede the view of nearby constructions, they promote the viewer to look up toward the mountains, and imagine them as part of the garden.