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	japanese garden - Great Gardening Tips Articles and News - japanese garden Cool Topics and Hot Links - Flowers ...
		Rock is the main foundation of the garden.
		Borrowed scenery consists of element that can be seen from within the garden, but that are not actually located inside the confines of the garden.
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	great-gardening-tips.com /japanese-garden.html (1640 words)

	Japanese Garden - The Helpful Gardener
		Unlike the western gardener (who deserts the garden in fall, not to be seen again in spring) the Japanese garden devotee visits and appreciates the garden in all the seasons.
		The Japanese refer to snow piled on the branches of trees as sekku, or snow blossoms, and there is a lantern known as yukimi that is named the snow viewing lantern.
		Fences and gates are as important to the Japanese garden as lanterns and maples.
	www.helpfulgardener.com /japanese/2003/design.html (2383 words)

	Seattle Parks & Recreation: Japanese Garden
		The Japanese Garden Advisory Council, in partnership with the Arboretum Foundation, has entered the fundraising phase for a new entry structure at the Japanese Garden.
		The Japanese Garden hosts tea demonstrations, gatherings, workshops, tours and special events throughout the summer.
		Pathways in the garden are surfaced with gravel which may result in some inconvenience for wheelchair and walker users.
	www.cityofseattle.net /parks/parkspaces/japanesegarden.htm (436 words)

	Japanese Garden Design - The Helpful Gardener
		Besides being a great historical snapshot of the state of the Japanese garden at the turn of the century, it is still one of the best overviews of the topic, explaining why, after a hundred years, new editions continue to be released.
		To paraphrase an old Japanese saying, to know one art is to know all arts, and this book covers the wide appreciation the Japanese have for culture in general and how that love is brought together in the tea ceremony.
		The Balinese Garden covers the gardens of that country in a garden by garden manner, Sarawak Style reviews the gardens of that region in the same manner, and my favorite, Thai Garden Style (with William Warren), is a treatment of that nation’s gardens in the same format.
	www.helpfulgardener.com /japanese/2003/design-tips.html (2730 words)

	Japanese Gardens and Japanese Garden Designs
		Explore japanese gardens and japanese garden designs through pictures of japanese rock gardens, tea gardens, water gardens, zen gardens, garden bridges to help understand the design and plan of japanese gardens.
		The japanese garden is probably one of the most intriguing aspects of japanese culture and life.
		The japanese garden is an interpretation and idealized conception of nature, accompanied with the artistic feeling of the creator.
	www.explorejapan.com /jgardens.htm (364 words)

	Japanese Garden Tour (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Elements in Japanese gardens are usually arranged in odd numbers of seven, five, or three to suggest the asymmetry of nature.
		The simplicity of a Japanese garden results from a willingness to expend enormous amounts of care and resources on every detail to create an atmosphere of unaffected naturalness and tranquility.
		Seiwa-en was inspired in 1972 by a proposal of the Japanese American Citizens' League to establish a Japanese garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
	www.mobot.org /hort/gardens/japanese/intro (704 words)

	Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden
		Unlike the formal, highly manicured gardens of Europe, Japanese gardens are designed to mirror nature, particularly Japan's rocky coastline and mountainous landscape, using trees, plants, and structures on a scale that creates an impression of greater space.
		Among the major architectural elements of the garden are wooden bridges, stone lanterns, a viewing pavilion, the torii or gateway, and a Shinto shrine.
		Japanese flowering cherries, which mark the beginning of spring and the season of hanami (flower viewing), grace the shoreline of the pond; the beautiful but fleeting blooms of these trees allude to the transitory nature of life.
	www.bbg.org /exp/stroll/japanese.html (582 words)

	Japanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park Pictures and History
		In Japanese culture, a garden is considered to be one of the highest art forms, expressing in a limited space the essence of nature through the use of specially-selected plants and stones.
		Seiwa-en is a Japanese Tea Garden located in The Missouri Botanical Garden that has both wet walking garden and dry meditation garden areas and includes descriptions of the symbolic significance of Japanese garden design.
		Miscanthus (Japanese pampas grass) is graceful with its plumes of seedheads waving in the breeze.
	www.inetours.com /Pages/SFNbrhds/Japanese_Tea_Garden.html (2896 words)

	Carleton College: Carleton's Japanese Garden: The Garden of Quiet Listening
		Further, a Japanese garden embodies a philosophy, at the heart of which is fulfillment found in harmony and tranquility of body, mind and spirit.
		Thus the roots of Japanese gardens are found in early Zen Buddhism and beyond that in the first man-made landscapes in early imperial China where landowners sought to preserve the natural beauty of their properties.
		Viewing a Japanese garden may be for some a different way of relating to a singular space upon our land, but it can give shape and nurture to one's life in surprising and serendipitous ways.
	apps.carleton.edu /campus/japanesegarden (865 words)

	Japanese Garden Factsheet - Gardening Australia - ABC
		The focus of the garden is a Japanese summerhouse that has been built in the traditional way in the centre of the garden and is a place of contemplation.
		Maintenance is crucial to Japanese gardens, where heavily pruned plants are characteristic and integral to the design.
		Aged elements are venerated in Japanese gardens, and moss and lichen are also encouraged to grow on rocks.
	www.abc.net.au /gardening/stories/s1129846.htm (712 words)

	Ritsurin Koen, a Japanese Garden
		In the Japanese garden the shapes of natural mountains, rivers and lakes and the wildernesses of forests are simulated and expressed in a heightened poetic way.
		The Japanese garden is a tangible realization of the aesthetics of Shinto nature worship and the ideals of Buddhist philosophy, the twin spiritual foundations of Japanese culture.
		The sand garden is combed in wave-like patterns and crossed by stepping-stone paths.
	www.holymtn.com /garden/RitsurinKoen1.htm (1152 words)

	The Japanese Garden and Pavilion [Jardin botanique de Montréal]
		Japanese landscape architect, Ken Nakajima, assisted by the Botanical Garden staff and a Québec firm, conceived and meticulously designed this garden using mainly Québec materials and plants so all greenery would be well adapted to our climate.
		The Montréal Botanical Garden is proud to present to its thousands of visitors this magnificent Japanese Garden and pavilion, which are a true reflection of Japanese art and culture.
		A visit to the Japanese Garden wouldn't be complete without a short stop at the cultural pavilion designed by architect Hisato Hiraoka.
	www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca /jardin/en/japonais/japonais.htm (645 words)

	City of Springfield, MO - Japanese Stroll Garden (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Japanese Garden in Nathanael Greene Park is demonstrative of the “stroll” variety.
		Movement through the garden is around ponds and islands, employing the “hide and reveal” concept in which the individual scenes in the garden are experienced separately.
		A garden is seen as a direct expression of ones’ attitude toward his environment, and we invite you to experience the peaceful setting of Springfield's own Japanese Garden.
	www.ci.springfield.mo.us /community/japanese_stroll_garden.html (623 words)

	Asahi Garden
		The word "Asahi" meaning "Rising Sun" was given to the garden because during the spring and summer months, the sun rises directly behind the waterfall when viewed from the deck.
		A Japanese Garden is one of simplicity and serenity.
		The word "Asahi" meaning "Rising Sun", was given to the garden because during the Spring and Summer months, the sun rises directly behind the waterfall when viewed from the deck or bridge.
	mcpondsociety.tripod.com /asahigarden (371 words)

	Japanese Gardens (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Japanese gardens are very important to the Japanese.
		The purpose of these gardens in to capture nature is the utmost natural way, and do it with a touch of artistic feeling.
		The first is that the Japanese gardens always follow certain ground rules with regard to both arrangement and content.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/students/chee/garden.html (204 words)

	The Japanese Garden
		Maymont's naturalistic Japanese Garden contrasts strongly with the formality of the Italian Garden.
		Maymont's Japanese Garden is blend of several different styles of Japanese gardens and two distinct periods of design.
		To create their garden, it is believed they hired Muto, a master Japanese gardener who had designed gardens for other estates along the East Coast.
	www.maymont.org /gardens/japanese.asp (446 words)

	USQ Japanese Garden
		Its elements of mountain stream and waterfall, Dry Garden, central lake, Azalea Hill, 3 kilometers of paths, 230 species of Japanese and Australian native trees and plants, and lawns combine in a seamless and restful harmony.
		Japanese gardens emphasise the use of rocks to create three dimensional pictures in stone.
		Most visitors stroll through the garden or relax on the seat near the Dry Garden; it is not uncommon to see an artist quietly painting a scene or children feeding bread to the fish or birds, which include swans, ducks, geese and smaller natives.
	www.usq.edu.au /visitors/JGarden.htm (490 words)

	The Huntington Botanical Gardens - The Japanese Garden
		The Japanese traditionally revere nature and their gardens are a quiet retreat from the pressures of life rather than a showplace.
		All gardens have each of these or the symbol or illusion of each such as a water basin instead of a pond or a dry gravel streambed.
		This is a very symbolic garden where the viewer quietly uses his or her imagination to interpret the scene.
	www.huntingtonbotanical.org /Japanese/facts.htm (450 words)

	Japanese Tea Garden
		The dual concepts of a tea garden as a place of passage and as a purified place separate from the outer world are also reflected in the common name for the tea garden, roji.
		The portion of the garden first entered from the outer gate is known as the outer garden, soto roji, while the portion nearer the teahouse is the inner garden, uchi roji; the middle gate marks the separation between the two.
		The tea garden is not a "garden" at all, in the sense of a place to gather and display plants or prized stones.
	www.mastergardenproducts.com /gardenerscorner/japanese_tea_garden.htm (991 words)

	Denver Botanic Gardens
		Shofu-en -- the Garden of Wind and Pines -- evokes a sense of tranquility.
		The garden’s numerous Ponderosa pines were collected from Colorado’s Roosevelt National Forest and are meticulously trimmed annually.
		Designed in 1979 by Dr. Koichi Kawana (whose work includes gardens at the Chicago and Missouri Botanic Gardens), the Japanese Garden is now over 25 years old.
	www.botanicgardens.org /ourgardensnew/japanese.cfm (150 words)

	Japanese Garden
		The Japanese garden is walled from view by the visitor, opening only through the entrance, where lion-dogs (male on the left, female on the right) stand guard.
		Some features of the Japanese garden are the temple bell, the moon bridge and reflecting ponds, the canyons with spring-flowering trees, stone lanterns and pagodas, and the Japanese house on the hillside across the lake.
		The courtyard is a Zen garden, a raked gravel composition that invites contemplation.
	www.huntington.org /BotanicalDiv/JapanGard.html (206 words)

	Japanese Garden
		Located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, the enchanting "Garden in the Sky" on the 3rd floor of the New Otani Hotel and Garden, is a miniature half-acre version of its historic 400 year-old ten-acre garden in the Hotel New Otani in Tokyo.
		In theory, a Japanese garden should represent the universe and its elements, The New Otani gardens are traditional "strolling gardens" and its path not just a functional entry into the garden, but a separation with each step signifying a release from the realities of work and worry.
		In a Japanese garden, such a rock may symbolize a mountain or a continent, while a palette of combed sand might be an ocean.
	www.newotani.com /garden.htm (325 words)

	Japanese Gardens: Overview
		In this way, similar to other forms of Japanese art, landscape design is constantly evolving because of the influx of mainland, namely Chinese, influences as well as the changing aesthetic tastes and values of the patrons.
		Gardens incorporate natural and artificial elements and thus, fuse the elements of nature and architecture.
		In order to appreciate and understand the Japanese garden, the viewer should consider nature as a picture frame into which the garden, or the man- made work of art, is inserted.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/ealac/V3613/gardens/overview.html (182 words)

	The Japanese Garden - Suiho En
		The beauty of the "garden of water and fragrance" (Suiho En) creates for the visitor a world of meditative calm where it is possible to focus on the simple and beautiful things in nature, and our lives.
		Suiho En the garden of water and fragrance is a 6.5 acre authentic Japanese garden fashioned after “stroll gardens” constructed during the 18th and 19th centuries for Japanese Feudal lords.
		The Japanese Garden shares the address of the Tillman Reclamation plant with an entrance on the east side of Woodley Avenue in Van Nuys.
	www.thejapanesegarden.com /Garden/Pages/garden.htm (404 words)

	Japanese Gardens - Overview
		Instead, the site is designed to provide the visitor with an opportunity to visit each garden, to move through or around it, to experience it through the medium of high-quality color images, and to learn something of its history.
		The presentation of each garden will include a plan that will help the visitor locate the various positions from which photographs were taken, but one may also take the tour by simply clicking on Tour the Garden.
		Other buttons lead to a longer history of each garden, a general bibliography, a glossary, an overview of the history of early garden design, and a section on the basic elements of Japanese gardens.
	learn.bowdoin.edu /japanesegardens (299 words)

	Portland Japanese Garden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Portland Japanese Garden is a traditional Japanese garden occupying 5.5 acres (22,000 m²), located within Washington Park in the west hills of Portland, Oregon, USA at 45.51872° N 122.7080° W.
		In a study conducted by the Journal of Japanese Gardening, it was ranked first out of 300 public Japanese gardens outside of Japan [1] [2] and considered to be one of the most authentic.
		According to traditional design, the garden combines three elements which represent the earth: stone represents mountains and islands for strength and support, water is the center and represents purity, and plants grace it with texture, color and growth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portland_Japanese_Garden (538 words)

	Amazon.com: Japanese Garden Design: Books: Marc P. Keane,Haruzo Ohashi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A landscape architect and garden designer working in Japan, Keane here offers a history of the Japanese garden over 20 centuries, showing how society, politics, religion, art, and the tea ceremony have contributed to the structure and elements of these beautiful retreats.
		While this book does not desribe individual gardens in detail, it adresses both the historical context and the many other influences that have shaped the aesthetic of the Japanese garden.
		Japanese scroll), also written by Marc Keane, with Jiro Takei; and "Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardening" (another ancient scroll trans.), by David Slawson.
	www.amazon.com /Japanese-Garden-Design-Marc-Keane/dp/0804820716 (2013 words)

	Japanese Garden (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This five and one half-acre garden consists of five separate garden styles which emphasis is on the combination of plants, stones, and water.
		The garden is approximately four miles uphill from downtown Portland.
		This garden will be different as the seasons change - if you would like to see it in full bloom, plan to visit in the summer.
	www.alaskagardengifts.com /tours/japanese.htm (308 words)

	Hillwood Gardens - Japanese-Style Garden (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Japanese-style Garden at Hillwood is one of the last remaining examples of the type of oriental gardens influenced by the reintroduction of the Japanese culture to America during the 1950s.
		The garden depicts the fountainhead of a mountain stream, which cascades from an evergreen forest, then pours into a series of ponds connected by streams and waterfalls before it ends in a lake at the bottom.
		Trees and shrubs that are classical to Japanese gardens, such as cryptomeria, cherries, azaleas, rhododendrons, Japanese maples, and pines, are blended with indigenous plants that grow in the woodland bordering the garden.
	www.hillwoodmuseum.org /gardens/japan.html (320 words)

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