HISTORY
JAPANESE ROCK GARDEN “In a place where there is neither a lake or a stream,
Veneration Heian Period (794- Kamaura Period
of large 1185), dry garden (1185-1333), dry
boulders arrangements
appeared next to
garden designs
=pond gardens
pond gardens
CHARACTARISITC
S
• Gardens without water
• Wavy pattern drawn with sand and
rocks
• All the rocks in the garden also
represent elements found in
regular Japanese gardens(islands,
mountains, trees, bridges and even
animals)
• Use odd number of  garden
landscaping rocks for creating  proper
Japanese rock garden arrangement.
• Stones in Japanese garden vary in
shapes and sizes
ELEMENTS
Rocks
• rocks play a significant role in the garden
• Large rocks arrangements that tend to
remain in place for years
• individual rocks are not the sole focus, they
are usually arranged into three symbolic
patterns
• 3 main patterns: The first, Karimnagar or 'dry
stream,' , kare-daki or 'dry waterfall,’ and
kalelike or 'dry pond,'
JANA JMAILE- ARC 425
one can put in place what is called a dry landscape”`
CULTURE
Muromachi Period
• Zen philosophy was introduced into Japan
(1338-1568), dry
from China in the 12th century
gardens become
independent
• Early Zen temples were with lakes and islands PURPOSE
• In Muromachi Era, Japanese culture was • harmony between our busy daily lives and nature
profoundly influenced by the Chinese sons • tranquil place to rest and experience awareness
and art and emptiness
• 14th and 15th century a new kind of garden • landscape changes with the seasons and moss
appeared at the important Zen temples
(meditation)
grows, so does our experience
• considered a living work of art.
• The most recognizable aspects of Japanese • offers simple backyard landscaping ideas that able
culture to bring a person back to their sense of ‘self’ in
DAISEN-IN
busy and stressful world
• Garden landscaping rocks are set deeply GARDEN • The Daisen-in is a sub temple of Daitakuji temple in Kyoto, Japan
• One of the five most important Zen temples of Kyoto
in the soil, sand or gravel
• rocks in Japanese garden lie on their • The Daisen-in temple comprises a ELEMENTS The gardens expresses the flow of water
from the mountains to the sea
spots for centuries, witnessing how the prayer area Rocks:
• The place is surrounded by small rock • Symbolize mountains Gravel:
weather, seasons and plants change.
• Line ponds and stream
• The arrangement of landscaping rocks in gardens for meditation • Vary in sizes and colors • Replace water
Japanese gardens is not symmetrical. • gardens purpose: to be seen from one • Their selection based on
• Strong contrasts of shapes, colors and angle that would tell a story and speak the colors the motifs the Vegetation:
• Arranged around the
textures are important (between stones to man’s inner search for meaning. creates a pattern
• The elements in the garden are garden to imitate nature
and the gravel) • They come from rivers and maintain beauty
Sand ang gravel
abstract enough to give free rein of
imagination 1
THE WATER FALL
Represent the beginning of life
• Gravel is usually used in Zen gardens, rather • symbol of
than sand
• the raked patterns of small particles only last a 3 THE MIDDLE 1 flowing water
• Descending large rocks represent
few weeks at most( Rain, wind, and other
SEA 3 2 mountains and longitudinal rock
natural forces erode and disrupt the carefully represent a bridge
shaped patterns) Haven't • The gravel represent flowing of water
• Zen priests practice this raking also to help ended yet
their concentration 2Represent
THE RIVER
• The white sand represent water and provides 4 THE OCEAN the
negative space in the composition passage of life
•  The water continue
• The water from the water fall
flowing from part 3 4 Continues it’s way under the wall to
• It has two cone-shaped
hills of gravel, suggesting reach the “ gate” part of the gardens
mountains or islands • Famous with the boat and turtle rocks