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'Japanese gardens' (Kanji 日本åºåœ’, ''nihon teien''), that is, gardens in traditional Japanese style, can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, at Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines, and at historical landmarks such as old castles.
Many of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, ''karesansui''. The tradition of the Tea masters has produced highly refined Japanese gardens of quite another style, evoking rural simplicity. In Japanese culture, garden-making is a high art, intimately related to the linked arts of calligraphy and ink painting. Since the end of the nineteenth century, Japanese gardens have also been imitated in Western gardening.
The tradition of Japanese gardening was passed down from ''sensei'' to apprentice, in a rigorous apprenticeship that has remained unbroken since the fifteenth century. The opening words of ZÅen's ''Illustrations for designing mountain, water and hillside field landscapes'' (1466) are "If you have not received the oral transmissions, you must not make gardens" and its closing admonition is "You must never show this writing to outsiders. You must keep it secret".[1]
A catalogue of features "typical" of the Japanese garden may be drawn up without inquiring deeply into the aesthetic underlying Japanese practice. Typical Japanese gardens contain several of these elements:
★ Water, real or symbolic.
★ Rocks.
★ A lantern, typically of stone.
★ A teahouse or pavilion.
★ A surrounding wall of traditional character.
★ An island fashioned in a manmade pond, thought to have been an innovation modelled on Chinese practice, that was introduced by the powerful court dignitary Soga no Umako, about 620 CE.
★ A bridge to the island, or stepping stones.
★ A "borrowed landscape" from beyond the garden's confines.
''Shakkei'' (借景), "borrowed scenery," is a technique used to integrate the garden with mountains, buildings, or other objects outside its boundaries. A middleground element, often consisting of carefully maintained plantings, blocks unwanted elements and frames the desired view. This middleground integrates the "borrowed" view into the garden's design. The viewer is encouraged to see all three areas - foreground, middleground, and background - as a single garden.
Japanese gardens might fall into one of these styles:
★ Pond gardens, for viewing from a boat.
★ Sitting gardens, for viewing from inside a building or on a veranda.
★ Tea gardens, for viewing from a path which leads to a tea ceremony hut.
★ Strolling gardens (''kaiyÅ«-shiki''), for viewing a sequence of effects from a path which circumnavigates the garden. The seventeenth-century Katsura garden in Kyoto is a famous exemplar.
The ''karesansui'' (or ''karesenzui'', ''kosansui'', ''kosensui'' 枯山水: "dry landscape") style originate from zen temples. These have no water and few plants, but typically evoke a feeling of water using pebbles and meticulously raked gravel or sand. Rocks chosen for their intriguing shapes and patterns, mosses, and low shrubs typify the ''karesansui'' style. The gardens at RyÅan-ji, a temple in Kyoto, and Daisen-in, created in 1513, are particularly renowned.
Other gardens also use similar rocks for decoration. Some of these come from distant 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.
Though often thought of as tranquil sanctuaries that allow individuals to escape from the stresses of daily life, Japanese gardens are designed for a variety of purposes. Most gardens invite quiet contemplation, but may have also been intended for recreation, the display of rare plant specimens, or the exhibition of unusual rocks.
''Kaiyu-shiki'' or Strolling Gardens require the observer to walk through the garden to fully appreciate it. A premeditated path takes observers through each unique area of a Japanese garden. Uneven surfaces are placed in specific spaces to prompt people to look down at particular points. When the observer looks up, they will see an eye-catching ornamentation which is intended to enlighten and revive the spirit of the observer. This type of design is known as the Japanese landscape principle of "hide and reveal".
Traditional Japanese sensibility attests that stones are actual beings with spirits that need to be treated with reverence. Stones are used to construct the garden's paths, bridges, and walkways. Stones also represent mountains where actual mountains are not viewable or present. They are always placed in odd numbers and a majority of the groupings reflect triangular shapes.
A water source in a Japanese garden should appear to be part of the natural surroundings; this is why one will not find fountains in traditional gardens. Man-made streams are built with curves and irregularities to create a serene and natural appearance. Lanterns are often placed beside some of the most prominent water basins (either a pond or a stream) in a garden representing the female and the male elements of water and fire. In Japanese tradition this is known as yin and yang. In some gardens one will find a dry pond or stream. Dry ponds and streams have as much impact as do the ones filled with water.
Green plants are the third element of Japanese gardens. Japanese traditions prefer minimal color so the use of flowers is generally parsimonious. Plants with colorful blooms are mostly used near a garden's entrance. Many plants in imitated Japanese gardens of the West are indigenous to Japan, though some sacrifices must be made to account for the differentiating climates. Some plants, such as sugar maple and firebush, give the garden a broader palette of seasonal color.
The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the government of Japan designates the most notable of the nation's scenic beauty as 'Special Places of Scenic Beauty', under the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties.[2]. As of March 1, 2007, 29 sites are listed, more than a half of which are Japanese gardens, as below;
'''Bold faces' specify World Heritage sites.''
★ Tohoku Region
★
★ MÅtsÅ«-ji Garden (Hiraizumi, Iwate)
★ KantÅ region
★
★ Rikugi-en (Bunkyo, Tokyo)
★
★ Koishikawa Korakuen Garden (Bunkyo, Tokyo)
★
★ Kyu Hamarikyu Gardens (Chuo, Tokyo)
★ ChÅ«bu region
★
★ Kenroku-en (Kanazawa, Ishikawa)
★
★ The garden of IchijÅdani Asakura Family Historic Ruins (Fukui, Fukui)
★ Kansai Region
★
★ 'Jisho-ji Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'NijÅ Castle Ninomaru Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'Rokuon-ji Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'RyÅan-ji Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'Tenryu-ji Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'The garden of Daishoin in Nishi Hongan-ji (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'The garden of SanbÅin in Daigo-ji (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'The moss garden of SaihÅ-ji (the "Moss Temple") (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ Daitoku-ji Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)
★
★ Ruins of KongÅhÅin Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)
★
★ The garden of Daisenin in Daitoku-ji (Kyoto, Kyoto)
★
★ The garden of Konchiin in Nanzen-ji (Kyoto, Kyoto)
★
★ JÅruri-ji Garden (Kizugawa, Kyoto)
★
★ The garden of SakyÅ-SanjÅ-NibÅ-no-Miya in HeijÅ-kyÅ (Nara, Nara)
★ ChÅ«goku region
★
★ KÅraku-en (Okayama, Okayama)
★ Shikoku Region
★
★ Ritsurin Park (Takamatsu, Kagawa)
★ RyÅ«kyÅ« Islands
★
★ 'Shikina-en (Naha, Okinawa)'
However, the Education Minister is not eligible to have jurisdiction over any imperial property. These two gardens, administered by Imperial Household Agency, are also considered to be great masterpieces.
★ Katsura Imperial Villa[3]
★ Shugaku-in Imperial Villa[4]
The aesthetic of Japanese gardens was introduced to the English-speaking community by Josiah Conder's ''Landscape Gardening in Japan'' ((Kelly & Walsh) 1893. It sparked the first Japanese gardens in the West. A second edition was required in 1912.[5] Conder's principles have sometimes proved hard to follow:
:"Robbed of its local garb and mannerisms, the Japanese method reveals aesthetic principles applicable to the gardens of any country, teaching, as it does, how to convert into a poem or picture a composition, which, with all its variety of detail, otherwise lacks unity and intent"[6]
Samuel Newsom, ''Japanese Garden Construction'' (1939) offered Japanese aesthetic as a corrective in the construction of rock gardens, which owed their quite separate origins in the West to the mid-nineteenth century desire to grow alpines in an approximation of Alpine scree.
★ The Buenos Aires Japanese Garden (JardÃn Japonés de Buenos Aires http://www.jardinjapones.org.ar/portada.htm), of the Fundación Cultural Argentino Japonesa [1].
★ Cowra Japanese Garden, Cowra, New South Wales
★ Frankston High School
★ Himeji Gardens, Adelaide
★ Melbourne Zoo
★ "Tsuki-yama-chisen" Japanese Garden, Brisbane
★ Parque Santos Dummont, São José dos Campos, São Paulo
★ Bosque Municipal Fábio Barreto, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo
★ Nitobe Memorial Garden, Vancouver, British Columbia
★ Dartington Hall, Devon
★ Harewood House, Leeds
★ Holland Park, London
★ Tatton Park, Cheshire
★ School of Oriental and African Studies, London
★ The Japanese Gardens at the Irish National Stud, Kildare, Co. Kildare
★ The Japanese Garden in WrocÅ‚aw - founded 1913, restored 1996-1997, destroyed by flood, restored 1999
★ Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh—garden opened 2002
★ Anderson Japanese Gardens (Rockford, Illinois)
★ Chicago Botanic Garden (Glencoe, Illinois)
★ Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden at Long Beach State
★ Fort Worth Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (Fort Worth, Texas)
★ Hakone Gardens (Saratoga, California)
★ The Huntington, San Marino, California.
★ Japanese Friendship Garden (Phoenix, Arizona)
★ Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, California)
★ Morikami Japanese Gardens and Museum in (Delray Beach, Florida)
★ Portland Japanese Garden, Portland, Oregon
★ Roji-en Japanese Gardens at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens (Delray Beach, Florida)
★ San Antonio Japanese Tea Gardens (San Antonio, Texas)
★ Seattle Japanese Garden at the Washington Park Arboretum, Kubota Garden (Seattle, Washington)
★ Seiwa-en at the Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, Missouri)
★ Japanese rock garden
★ Japanese Friendship Garden
★ Tea garden
★ Chinese garden
★ Korean gardens
★ Niwaki
★ Koi
1. The ''Illustrations'', nevertheless, are translated and annotated in David A. Slawson, ''Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens'' (New York/Tokyo: Kodansha 1987), which forms in effect an introduction to the text.
2. http://www.mext.go.jp/english/org/eshisaku/ebunka.htm
3. http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/regional/kyoto/katsura.html
4. http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/regional/kyoto/shugaku-in.html
5. Slawson 1987:15 and note2.
6. Conder quoted in Slawson 1987:15.
★ Japan - Oguchi Teien Green Exterior
★ Jgarden — Japanese Garden Database
★ Meditations on the Japanese Garden
★ Paradise - The Gardens of Tokyo : a portfolio of photographs by Tim Porter
★ About Japanese gardens: Pictures and links
★ Art & Culture of Japan:Japanese gardens with Pictures
★ The Modern Japanese Garden
Garden Bridges and photographs of Japanese Garden bridges.
★ Slawson, David A. ''Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens'' (New York/Tokyo: Kodansha) 1987
This view from the Symbolic Mountain in the gardens in Cowra, NSW shows many of the typical elements of a Japanese garden.
Stone lantern amid plants. The shape of the roof will trap and hold a picturesque cap of snow.
Karesansui garden at TÅfuku-ji in Kyoto.
This garden has an abundance of plants, including seasonal flowers.
'Japanese gardens' (Kanji 日本åºåœ’, ''nihon teien''), that is, gardens in traditional Japanese style, can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, at Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines, and at historical landmarks such as old castles.
Many of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, ''karesansui''. The tradition of the Tea masters has produced highly refined Japanese gardens of quite another style, evoking rural simplicity. In Japanese culture, garden-making is a high art, intimately related to the linked arts of calligraphy and ink painting. Since the end of the nineteenth century, Japanese gardens have also been imitated in Western gardening.
The tradition of Japanese gardening was passed down from ''sensei'' to apprentice, in a rigorous apprenticeship that has remained unbroken since the fifteenth century. The opening words of ZÅen's ''Illustrations for designing mountain, water and hillside field landscapes'' (1466) are "If you have not received the oral transmissions, you must not make gardens" and its closing admonition is "You must never show this writing to outsiders. You must keep it secret".[1]
Typical features
A catalogue of features "typical" of the Japanese garden may be drawn up without inquiring deeply into the aesthetic underlying Japanese practice. Typical Japanese gardens contain several of these elements:
★ Water, real or symbolic.
★ Rocks.
★ A lantern, typically of stone.
★ A teahouse or pavilion.
★ A surrounding wall of traditional character.
★ An island fashioned in a manmade pond, thought to have been an innovation modelled on Chinese practice, that was introduced by the powerful court dignitary Soga no Umako, about 620 CE.
★ A bridge to the island, or stepping stones.
★ A "borrowed landscape" from beyond the garden's confines.
''Shakkei'' (借景), "borrowed scenery," is a technique used to integrate the garden with mountains, buildings, or other objects outside its boundaries. A middleground element, often consisting of carefully maintained plantings, blocks unwanted elements and frames the desired view. This middleground integrates the "borrowed" view into the garden's design. The viewer is encouraged to see all three areas - foreground, middleground, and background - as a single garden.
Styles
Japanese gardens might fall into one of these styles:
★ Pond gardens, for viewing from a boat.
★ Sitting gardens, for viewing from inside a building or on a veranda.
★ Tea gardens, for viewing from a path which leads to a tea ceremony hut.
★ Strolling gardens (''kaiyÅ«-shiki''), for viewing a sequence of effects from a path which circumnavigates the garden. The seventeenth-century Katsura garden in Kyoto is a famous exemplar.
The ''karesansui'' (or ''karesenzui'', ''kosansui'', ''kosensui'' 枯山水: "dry landscape") style originate from zen temples. These have no water and few plants, but typically evoke a feeling of water using pebbles and meticulously raked gravel or sand. Rocks chosen for their intriguing shapes and patterns, mosses, and low shrubs typify the ''karesansui'' style. The gardens at RyÅan-ji, a temple in Kyoto, and Daisen-in, created in 1513, are particularly renowned.
Other gardens also use similar rocks for decoration. Some of these come from distant 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.
The use of stones, water, and plantings
Japanese Garden in Cowra, NSW showing the use of stone, water and plants
Though often thought of as tranquil sanctuaries that allow individuals to escape from the stresses of daily life, Japanese gardens are designed for a variety of purposes. Most gardens invite quiet contemplation, but may have also been intended for recreation, the display of rare plant specimens, or the exhibition of unusual rocks.
''Kaiyu-shiki'' or Strolling Gardens require the observer to walk through the garden to fully appreciate it. A premeditated path takes observers through each unique area of a Japanese garden. Uneven surfaces are placed in specific spaces to prompt people to look down at particular points. When the observer looks up, they will see an eye-catching ornamentation which is intended to enlighten and revive the spirit of the observer. This type of design is known as the Japanese landscape principle of "hide and reveal".
Traditional Japanese sensibility attests that stones are actual beings with spirits that need to be treated with reverence. Stones are used to construct the garden's paths, bridges, and walkways. Stones also represent mountains where actual mountains are not viewable or present. They are always placed in odd numbers and a majority of the groupings reflect triangular shapes.
A water source in a Japanese garden should appear to be part of the natural surroundings; this is why one will not find fountains in traditional gardens. Man-made streams are built with curves and irregularities to create a serene and natural appearance. Lanterns are often placed beside some of the most prominent water basins (either a pond or a stream) in a garden representing the female and the male elements of water and fire. In Japanese tradition this is known as yin and yang. In some gardens one will find a dry pond or stream. Dry ponds and streams have as much impact as do the ones filled with water.
Green plants are the third element of Japanese gardens. Japanese traditions prefer minimal color so the use of flowers is generally parsimonious. Plants with colorful blooms are mostly used near a garden's entrance. Many plants in imitated Japanese gardens of the West are indigenous to Japan, though some sacrifices must be made to account for the differentiating climates. Some plants, such as sugar maple and firebush, give the garden a broader palette of seasonal color.
Noteworthy Japanese gardens
In Japan
A spacious Japanese garden: Hosokawa Gyobu Tei, near Kumamoto Castle
An egret rests on a stone lantern in the upper lake of the Japanese Garden in Cowra, NSW, Australia
A kaiyu-shiki or strolling garden
The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the government of Japan designates the most notable of the nation's scenic beauty as 'Special Places of Scenic Beauty', under the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties.[2]. As of March 1, 2007, 29 sites are listed, more than a half of which are Japanese gardens, as below;
'''Bold faces' specify World Heritage sites.''
★ Tohoku Region
★
★ MÅtsÅ«-ji Garden (Hiraizumi, Iwate)
★ KantÅ region
★
★ Rikugi-en (Bunkyo, Tokyo)
★
★ Koishikawa Korakuen Garden (Bunkyo, Tokyo)
★
★ Kyu Hamarikyu Gardens (Chuo, Tokyo)
★ ChÅ«bu region
★
★ Kenroku-en (Kanazawa, Ishikawa)
★
★ The garden of IchijÅdani Asakura Family Historic Ruins (Fukui, Fukui)
★ Kansai Region
★
★ 'Jisho-ji Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'NijÅ Castle Ninomaru Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'Rokuon-ji Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'RyÅan-ji Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'Tenryu-ji Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'The garden of Daishoin in Nishi Hongan-ji (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'The garden of SanbÅin in Daigo-ji (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ 'The moss garden of SaihÅ-ji (the "Moss Temple") (Kyoto, Kyoto)'
★
★ Daitoku-ji Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)
★
★ Ruins of KongÅhÅin Garden (Kyoto, Kyoto)
★
★ The garden of Daisenin in Daitoku-ji (Kyoto, Kyoto)
★
★ The garden of Konchiin in Nanzen-ji (Kyoto, Kyoto)
★
★ JÅruri-ji Garden (Kizugawa, Kyoto)
★
★ The garden of SakyÅ-SanjÅ-NibÅ-no-Miya in HeijÅ-kyÅ (Nara, Nara)
★ ChÅ«goku region
★
★ KÅraku-en (Okayama, Okayama)
★ Shikoku Region
★
★ Ritsurin Park (Takamatsu, Kagawa)
★ RyÅ«kyÅ« Islands
★
★ 'Shikina-en (Naha, Okinawa)'
However, the Education Minister is not eligible to have jurisdiction over any imperial property. These two gardens, administered by Imperial Household Agency, are also considered to be great masterpieces.
★ Katsura Imperial Villa[3]
★ Shugaku-in Imperial Villa[4]
Twenty stone snow-viewing lanterns in ''Monte Palace Tropical Garden'' on Madeira
In other countries
The aesthetic of Japanese gardens was introduced to the English-speaking community by Josiah Conder's ''Landscape Gardening in Japan'' ((Kelly & Walsh) 1893. It sparked the first Japanese gardens in the West. A second edition was required in 1912.[5] Conder's principles have sometimes proved hard to follow:
:"Robbed of its local garb and mannerisms, the Japanese method reveals aesthetic principles applicable to the gardens of any country, teaching, as it does, how to convert into a poem or picture a composition, which, with all its variety of detail, otherwise lacks unity and intent"[6]
Samuel Newsom, ''Japanese Garden Construction'' (1939) offered Japanese aesthetic as a corrective in the construction of rock gardens, which owed their quite separate origins in the West to the mid-nineteenth century desire to grow alpines in an approximation of Alpine scree.
Argentina
★ The Buenos Aires Japanese Garden (JardÃn Japonés de Buenos Aires http://www.jardinjapones.org.ar/portada.htm), of the Fundación Cultural Argentino Japonesa [1].
Australia
★ Cowra Japanese Garden, Cowra, New South Wales
★ Frankston High School
★ Himeji Gardens, Adelaide
★ Melbourne Zoo
★ "Tsuki-yama-chisen" Japanese Garden, Brisbane
Brazil
★ Parque Santos Dummont, São José dos Campos, São Paulo
★ Bosque Municipal Fábio Barreto, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo
Canada
★ Nitobe Memorial Garden, Vancouver, British Columbia
England
★ Dartington Hall, Devon
★ Harewood House, Leeds
★ Holland Park, London
★ Tatton Park, Cheshire
★ School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Ireland
★ The Japanese Gardens at the Irish National Stud, Kildare, Co. Kildare
Poland
★ The Japanese Garden in WrocÅ‚aw - founded 1913, restored 1996-1997, destroyed by flood, restored 1999
Scotland
★ Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh—garden opened 2002
United States of America
★ Anderson Japanese Gardens (Rockford, Illinois)
★ Chicago Botanic Garden (Glencoe, Illinois)
★ Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden at Long Beach State
★ Fort Worth Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (Fort Worth, Texas)
★ Hakone Gardens (Saratoga, California)
★ The Huntington, San Marino, California.
★ Japanese Friendship Garden (Phoenix, Arizona)
★ Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, California)
★ Morikami Japanese Gardens and Museum in (Delray Beach, Florida)
★ Portland Japanese Garden, Portland, Oregon
★ Roji-en Japanese Gardens at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens (Delray Beach, Florida)
★ San Antonio Japanese Tea Gardens (San Antonio, Texas)
★ Seattle Japanese Garden at the Washington Park Arboretum, Kubota Garden (Seattle, Washington)
★ Seiwa-en at the Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, Missouri)
See also
★ Japanese rock garden
★ Japanese Friendship Garden
★ Tea garden
★ Chinese garden
★ Korean gardens
★ Niwaki
★ Koi
Notes
1. The ''Illustrations'', nevertheless, are translated and annotated in David A. Slawson, ''Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens'' (New York/Tokyo: Kodansha 1987), which forms in effect an introduction to the text.
2. http://www.mext.go.jp/english/org/eshisaku/ebunka.htm
3. http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/regional/kyoto/katsura.html
4. http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/regional/kyoto/shugaku-in.html
5. Slawson 1987:15 and note2.
6. Conder quoted in Slawson 1987:15.
External links
★ Japan - Oguchi Teien Green Exterior
★ Jgarden — Japanese Garden Database
★ Meditations on the Japanese Garden
★ Paradise - The Gardens of Tokyo : a portfolio of photographs by Tim Porter
★ About Japanese gardens: Pictures and links
★ Art & Culture of Japan:Japanese gardens with Pictures
★ The Modern Japanese Garden
Garden Bridges and photographs of Japanese Garden bridges.
References
★ Slawson, David A. ''Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens'' (New York/Tokyo: Kodansha) 1987
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