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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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  • 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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    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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    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 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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    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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