Japanese gardens Bányai Kinga 2013.11.05

Contraction: Japanese gardens symbolism Tipical elemets 3 main types of this garden Beautiful example Harmony of the garden (pictures)

Distinctive plants Giant boulders Small stones Stone lanterns Water The Japanese garden is the scaled-down nature-”closed replika” Distinctive plants Giant boulders Small stones Stone lanterns Water Bridges Gazebos

Tipical elemets of Japanese gardens We should keep out the outside world Sintoist garden’s entrance Shrine „NANTEI” ▼ ▲ „TORII” It's the border of the real and the imaginary world.

Tipical elemets of Japanese gardens According to east side people's faith gods live among these zen stones. Stones live forever, and have a soul Special stone gives home to the good spirits They put the stones in 3-5 or 7 numbered groups. They often use basalt The high rocks hunt down, and the lower or lying stones forced the bad ghosts to the ground.

Tipical elemets of Japanese gardens In the garden of a japanese person, people can walk on paths, and not on the pavement. The garden paths compose the garden's structure and build.

Three main types of Japanese garden 1. Tsukiyama (landscape) garden 2. Kare-sansui (stonegarden) 3. Chaniwa (tea) garden

1.Tsukiyama (landscape) Includes mountains, lakes, and streams They try to show the smaller garden more spacious Planting bushes to hide the surrounding buildings In this style, the mosses, stones, fountains, hills, trees, flowers and the paths have speciale role.

2. Kare-sansui (stonegarden) Dry river bed or stonegarden Spread in the age of Muromachi and it was inspired to embody the zen intellectuality Unlike other traditinal garden the water is absent With the combination of the mosses, and cliffs, they shape smaller lakes, island, seas, rivers, and mountains.

3. Chaniwa (tea garden) This gardens specifically built for the tea ceremony Stepping stones leading up to a tea house The use of stone lanterns are common features in Chaniwa gardens

Kokedera = Moss Temple Kokedera is one of Kyoto’s Unesco World Heritagde Sites. The temple garden's estimated 120 different varieties of moss.

Kokedera = Moss Temple Visitors to the temple can walk through this spectacular garden. Kokedera was originally the site of Prince Shotoku's villa before becoming a temple in the Nara Period.

Harmony of the garden

Harmony of the garden

Harmony of the garden

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