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    The Japanese dry garden (枯山水, karesansui) or Japanese rock garden, often called a Zen garden, is a distinctive style of Japanese garden. It creates a miniature...
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    time, Nagao Sakurai designed a "Peace Garden" and a karesansui or dry landscape garden. Karesansui are commonly referred to as Zen Gardens outside of Japan...
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    Higashiyama culture include: Ginkaku and Garden of Jishō-ji Karesansui of Ryōan-ji Karesansui of Daisen-in View of Ama-no-Hashidate by Sesshū (Kyoto National...
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    designed to be best appreciated after a fall of snow. Japanese Zen gardens (karesansui, dry rock gardens) make extensive use of Karikomi (a topiary technique...
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    Tuin of Clingendael park The Tsubo-en karesansui garden in Lelystad, a private modern Japanese zen (karesansui meaning "dry rock") garden The Von Siebold...
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  • represent waterfalls and streambeds. Late Rock Gardens - (15th century) karesansui gardens almost entirely constructed of gravel, stone and sand. Flat Gardens...
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    temple with a fine pagoda Ryōan-ji, the Zen Buddhist temple with the karesansui (dry-landscape, i.e. raked stones) garden Tenryū-ji, the head temple of...
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    Shigeichi Suzuki, a landscape architect from Nagaoka, donated plans for a karesansui-style addition to the Garden in 1997. The addition was completed in 2000...
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    temple's name is synonymous with the temple's famous Zen garden, the karesansui (dry landscape) rock garden, thought to have been built in the late 15th...
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    of Seattle, United States (1967) Port of Tianjin, China An'yō-in. Its karesansui is one of Japan's Places of Scenic Beauty. Kobe Municipal Arboretum Kobe...
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    gardens were decorated with large rocks and other raw materials to build Karesansui or Zen rock gardens. "Their designs imbued the gardens with a sense of...
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    An'yō-in's karesansui completed in Azuchi–Momoyama period is a national Place of Scenic Beauty. Shoin: It was built in the 1730s. Sanmon Karesansui Japanese...
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    the Tōfuku-ji Rinzai school in 1273. Kōmyōzen-ji is celebrated for its karesansui garden, the only example in Kyushu. Dazaifu Tenman-gū Kanzeon-ji Japanese...
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    gardens are as follows: Shinden Garden, Paradise Garden, Early Rock Garden, Karesansui Garden, Hiraniwa Garden, and Modern Romantic Garden. The Shinden Garden...
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    earthquake and tsunami. The gardens of Entsū-in are divided into four areas: a karesansui garden; a moss garden around a pond shaped like the character for heart...
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    Karesansui of Ryōan-ji, Kyoto...
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  • of Asian Studies at Carlton College. The garden is in the style of a karesansui or dry landscape garden, and contains several features: stone lanterns...
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    thrown in, the bigger the ripples. The temple also includes three other karesansui gardens: Isshi-dan, Koda-tei, and Ryōgin-tei (a moss-covered garden which...
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    Totekiko, a famous tsubo-niwa garden, is in the karesansui style and does not use vegetation....
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    principles replaced water with sand or gravel to produce the dry garden (karesansui) like the one at Ryōan-ji. Jōdodō of Jōdo-ji, Ono, Hyōgo Built in 1194...
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    karamon (唐門) – generic term for a gate with an arched roof. See also mon. karesansui (枯山水) – lit. dry landscape. A Japanese rock garden, often present in Zen...
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    enters The Japanese Garden, one walks through a dry Zen meditation garden (Karesansui) containing a large grass-covered mound, representing Tortoise Island...
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  • Tofuku-ji Temple in 1939. He designed 240 gardens, and worked mostly in karesansui, or dry landscape gardens. Many of his gardens are on existing religious...
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    gardens of Kyoto: from the ancient moss temple garden of Saiho-ji and Karesansui-style gardens at Ryoan-Ji, Daisen-In and Ryogen-En, to the borrowed landscapes...
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    Erholungspark Marzahn park as well as strikingly contemporary designs such as the karesansui garden at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. When designing a garden, Masuno...
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    features of a Zen temple, for example a sanmon (main gate), a pond and a karesansui (rock garden). Kōmyō-ji has always enjoyed the patronage of Japan's powerful...
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    work of making patterns in the sand with a rake is also evocative of the Karesansui practice in traditional Japanese rock gardens, and of the large scale...
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    the celebrated Ten Wells of Kamakura (鎌倉十の井), the Kame no I (瓶の井) The karesansui, a garden of raked sand, rocks and plants representing legendary Buddhist...
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    and more paintings by Kano; and a tea room. The major garden is in the Karesansui (枯山水) style, and now designated as an eminent scenery; it contains a notable...
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    patterns and is designed for viewing and contemplation. It is a classic Karesansui (dry landscape) garden, completed in 1922. The Tea Garden is patterned...
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