Tofukuji Temple; Southern Garden; tofukuji south garden; tofukuji; zen garden; dry garden; karasansui garden; tofukuji garden; Kyoto garden; zen gardens
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Tofukuji Temple southern garden, in front of the Hojo is the most contrived work among the four gardens and is composed of rock compositions symbolizing Elysian islands. Showing the eight seas and five moss-covered sacred mountains at the western end of the garden.
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Tofukuji Temple in the outskirts of Kyoto is renowned for its autumn colors and four different gardens surrounding the 'Hojo" or meditation hall including this Zen rock garden.
Tofukuji Temple Pond Garden; Tofukuji Temple; Pond Garden; Japanese garden; Japanese pond garden; tofukuji garden
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Pond Garden at Tofukuji Temple - the head temple of the Tofukuji School of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism. Its original buildings were burned but were rebuilt in the 15th century according to the original plans. About this time it flourished as one of the Five Great Temples of Kyoto. In addition to the pond garden, the main building of the temple is surrounded by gardens unique in Japan.
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Northern Garden, Tofukuji Temple. Square cutted stones and moss are distributed in a chequered pattern. Though modern in its style and composition, this is one of the most unique gardens in Japan.
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Depicting Heaven and Hell at Yoko-en Garden at Taizo-in Temple displays both elegance and austerity - the basis for traditional garden landscapes, and can be called one of the Showa period's most exquisite gardens. Nakane Kinsaku designed this expansive garden. Difficult to see at a glance, great pains have gone into the details. An example of this is the spacious impression one gets when the garden is viewed from the front.
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Ryoanji Temple garden is one of the world's best known gardens. The main attraction is its rock garden, the most renowned of its kind in Japan. The simple Zen garden consist of nothing but rocks and neatly raked gravel. Though the meaning of the garden's arrangement is unknown and up to each visitor's interpretation it is said that if you can see all of the 15 stones at one time you have reached enlightenment.
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Hoshun-in Zen Garden, Daitokuji Temple, Though not very large, Hoshun-in is an elegantly landscaped garden with oddly overlaying rocks, and attractive for its three dimensional composition. Hoshun-in offers outstanding seasonal beauty in the flowering season due to lilies and irises surrounding the pond and its Zen rock garden.
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Ryogen-in, the head temple of the South School of Rinzai-shu Daitoku-ji sect, has a collection of zen gardens including Ryogin-tei a Karesansui or Zen garden laid out in the early 16th century.
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Zuiho-in Zen Garden's most intriguing feature is its main rock garden called "Dozuka-tei", which is raked into appealing patterns to suggest water ripples lapping against rock formations representing the Hohrai Mountains.
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Yoko-en Garden at Taizo-in Temple displays both elegance and austerity - the basis for traditional garden landscapes, and can be called one of the Showa period's finest gardens. The landscape gardener Nakane Kinsaku designed this expansive garden. While difficult to see at a glance, great pains have gone into the details. An example of this is the spacious impression one gets when the garden is viewed from the front.
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Nanzen-in Garden at Nanzenji Temple is a strolling garden composed around a pond. Less austere than Nanzenji's main garden the centerpiece of Nanzen-in is a large rock in the pond representing Mt Horai which was a mythical dwelling place of immortal sages.
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Motonobu-no-Niwa Garden at Taizoin - Motonobu Kano, the Master of Zen and also a painter of the Muromachi period, designed this garden and as such, it retains a very graceful, elegant and painterly ambience, giving it a unique air. The background scenery of the garden consists mainly of camellia, pine, Japanese umbrella pine, and other evergreens, presumably planted to present an "eternal beauty" that remains the same throughout the changing seasons.
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Tenryuji - more formally known as Tenryu Shiseizen-ji ior "Temple of the Heavenly Dragon" s the head temple of the Tenryu branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. Sogenchi Garden, located behind Tenryuji, is one of the oldest landscape gardens in Japan, retaining the same form as when it was designed in the fourteenth century by Muso Soseki.
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Couple admiring the view from tatami room at Tenryu-ji Temple's Sogenchi Pond Garden. Tenryuji is more formally known as Tenryu Shiseizen-ji and is the head temple of the Tenryu branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. Its first chief priest was Muso Soseki the famous Zen garden designer who created this magnificent garden which was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Japanese Maple and Autumn Colors at Koto-In Garden. Koto-in was established in 1601 by Tadaoki Hosokawa, a famous warrior under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He studied Zen under the Daitoku-ji abbot, Seigan, and was a disciple of tea master, Sen no Rikyu. Koto-in is home to two famous tea houses, Shoko-ken and Horai.
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Tenryu-ji more formally known as Tenryu Shiseizen-ji is the head temple of the Tenryu branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism, located in Arashiyama, Kyoto. The temple was founded by Ashikaga Takauji in 1339, primarily to venerate Gautama Buddha, and its first chief priest was Muso Soseki the famous Zen garden designer. As a temple related to both the Ashikaga family and Emperor Go-Daigo, the temple is held in high esteem, and is ranked number one among Kyoto's so-called "Five Mountains." In 1994, it was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Daigoji Temple Garden within Daigoji temple complex, a UNESCO world heritage site that includes many temple halls, structures and pagodas including Kyoto's oldest building.
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Tenryuji - more formally known as Tenryu Shiseizen-ji ior "Temple of the Heavenly Dragon" is the head temple of the Tenryu branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. Sogenchi Garden, located behind Tenryuji Temple itself, is one of the oldest landscape gardens in Japan, retaining the same form as when it was designed in the fourteenth century by Muso Soseki.
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Japanese koi ponds or carp ponds are a standard feature in many Japanese gardens. In Japan, carp represent strength and are used as a symbol of boyhood.
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Daisensui Pond at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden in Tokyo. The garden was started in 1629 by Yorifusa Mito, the Daimyo of Mito and was completed by his successor, Mitsukuni Mito Mitsukuni and named this garden "Koraku-en" (Koraku means "enjoying afterwards") . Korakuen was appointed as the special place of scenic beauty and the special historic site based on the cultural properties protection law of Japan.
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Ginkakuji is a Zen temple at the foot of Kyoto's Higashiyama or "eastern mountain". The temple was formally known as Tozan Jishoji and built in 1482 as a retirement villa for shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa. A few years later, the Silver Pavilion was constructed, modeled after Kinkakuji's Golden Pavilion. Plans to cover the pavilion in silver were never realized yet the name Silver Pavilion stuck. The villa was converted into a Zen temple after Yoshimasa's death and is well known for its zen garden.
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Rikugien Garden the very name of this garden means the six traditional elements essential to great poetry. A wonderful, romantic sentiment in itself for a garden but especially apt because the concept has been followed through to the design and layout of this garden which depicts 88 scenes from a classic Japanese poem. It does so by use of the pond, stone islands, teahouses and bridges.
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Ryogen-tei Garden at Ryogen-in which has a collection of Zen gardens. The most interesting would be Ryogin-tei, a Karesansui or dry garden designed and laid out in the early 16th century.
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The construction of Koishikawa Korakuen Garden of Tokyo was started in 1629 by Yorifusa Mito, the Daimyo of Mito and was completed by his successor, Mitsukuni Mito Mitsukuni and named this garden "Koraku-en" (Koraku means "enjoying afterwards") . Korakuen was appointed as the special place of scenic beauty and the special historic site based on the cultural properties protection law of Japan.
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Ninnaji is one of Kyoto's most interesting temples, featuring a large variety of different buildings and gardens on its spacious grounds. It belongs to Kyoto's UNESCO world heritage sites. Ninnaji was founded in the year 888 as an imperial residence, but like most historic buildings in Japan, suffered repeated destruction in wars and fires over the centuries. Today Ninnaji is the headquarters of the Omuro school of the Buddhist Shingon sect and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Reiun-in was established in 1390 by Kioy Hosho. The temple has always had a tradtional Japanese garden since its establishment but the original was destroyed. However, there was a picture taken of the original in the Edo period, and modern Japanese garden designer Mirei Shigemori redesigned the garden using original as a base. The garden was meant to expres the true aspect of the great universe.
Matsuo Shrine Garden; Matsunoo Shrine Gardens; shofu-en garden; stone garden; rock garden; zen garden; Japanese garden; stones; rocks
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Shofu-en has three famous gardens: Iwakura, Horai and Kyokusui. These gardens were designed by.Mirei Shigemori during the Showa era. They are not so old but are among the greatest of Japanese gardens designed after the Meiji era. He designed them with a combination of rocks, and the opposite concepts of "stillness" and "movement" in harmony.
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Shomyoji Arched Bridge. Shomyoji was built by Sanetoki Hojo during the Kamakura period, and was made the Hojo family temple of the Kanazawa area. The Jodo style garden with Ajiike Pond in front of the main temple is its most unique feature when considering the arched bridge. The temple's bell was portrayed in the woodblock print "Shomyo-no-Bansho," one of eight prints depicting views of Kanazawa by Hiroshige Utagawa.
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Ryogen-in is a subtemple of the Daitokuji Zen Buddhist complex in Kyoto, It was constructed in 1502. There are five gardens adjoining the abbot's residence, including Totekiko claimed to be the smallest Japanese rock garden, Isshi-dan, Koda-tei and Ryogin-tei a moss covered garden which claims to be the oldest garden in Daitoku-ji, and has been attributed to the renowned garden designer Soami.
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Entoku-in Garden was originally part of Fushimijo Castle and also a sub-temple of Kodaiji Temple. It was founded by a nephew of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The northern dry garden shows the essence of Momoyama style and is a registered National Place of Scenic Beauty by the Japanese government. It was built in 1605 and dedicated as a Rinzai sect temple in 1633..
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Zuiho-in temple was founded in 1535 by OTOMO Sorin (OTOMO Yoshishige, 1530-1587), who was later baptized and became one of a few Christian lords in Japan. The temple is known for its modern karesansui or dry zen landscape garden that were designed lby Shigemori Mirei.
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Hama Rikyu Garden or Hama-rikyu Onshi Teien is a landscape garden surrounding Shioiri Pond. The park itself is surrounded by a seawater moat filled by Tokyo Bay. It was remodeled as a public garden park on the site of a villa of the Shogun Tokugawa family in the 17th century. Visitors can also enjoy Japanese tea and sweets at a tea house in the middle of the pond, called Nakajima-no-Ochaya in the garden that offers matcha tea and Japanese sweets.
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Zuiho-in temple was founded in 1535 by OTOMO Sorin (OTOMO Yoshishige, 1530-1587), who was later baptized and became one of a few Christian lords in Japan. The temple is known for its modern karesansui or dry zen landscape garden that were designed lby Shigemori Mirei.
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The Moss Garden at Saihoji Temple is one of the few temples in Kyoto where visitors must request an invitation in advance before their visit. Visitors are required to participate in chanting and writing wishes before visiting the famous gardens. In this way the monks are able to maintain the temple and garden and prevent mass tourism from destroying the tranquility of the moss garden.
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Teahouse at the pond garden of Shosei-en - Rinchi-tei on the left and Tekisui-ken to its right. Shosei-en Garden was designed as a retreat for the chief priest Sen'nyo. Shosei-en is also called Kikoku-tei "Orange Mansion" because it was once surrounded by orange groves. The garden is a Chisen-Kaiyu-Shiki teien that is a pond strolling garden with buildings such as tea-ceremony houses arranged here and there throughout the grounds.
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Rikugien Garden the very name of this garden means the six traditional elements essential to great poetry. A wonderful, romantic sentiment in itself for a garden but especially apt because the concept has been followed through to the design and layout of this garden which depicts 88 scenes from a classic Japanese poem. It does so by use of the pond, stone islands, teahouses and bridges.
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Banryutei Garden; Kongobuji Temple; stone garden; rock gardens; zen garden; pebble garden; dry garden
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Banryutei Stone Garden - Kongobuji is the head temple of the Shingon sect of Buddhism, located on Mount Koya. Its name means "Temple of the Diamond Mountain" and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The temple's modern Banryutei rock garden is Japan's largest Zen Garden with 140 granite stones arranged to suggest dragons emerging from clouds to protect the temple.
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Byodo-in is a Buddhist temple in the city of Uji in Kyoto prefecture, a National Treasure and a World Heritage Site. Its outline is featured on the •10 coin. Built in 998 AD during the Heian period, Byodo-in was originally a private residence like many Japanese temples. It was converted into a temple by the Fujiwara clan in 1052. The Phoenix Hall, the great statue of Amida inside it, and several other items at Byodoin are Japanese National Treasures. UNESCO listed the building as a World Heritage Site in 1994.
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Ryoanji - The Temple of the Dragon at Peace - is a Zen temple located in Kyoto well known for its famous zen garden. The garden is thought to have been built in the late 15th century and consists of raked gravel and fifteen moss covered boulders, which are placed so that, when looking at the garden from any angle only fourteen of the boulders are visible at one time. It is said that only through attaining enlightenment could you be able to view the fifteenth boulder.
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At Kodai-ji temple there are several formal gardens designed by Kobori Enshu, who was an architect and master Zen gardener, as well as a master of calligraphy, poetry, and tea ceremony. Kodaiji's south garden is a karesansui, or dry rock garden featuring a large area of raked gravel that is punctuated by conical gravel formations and surrounded by a border of moss and stone. The raked gravel of a karesansui is meant to evoke the ripple patterns that form in water.
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Ryoanji or the Temple of the Dragon at Peace is a Zen temple in northwest Kyoto, Ryoanji belongs to the Myōshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism. The garden is considered to be the finest examples of a karesansui, Japanese rock garden, or zen garden, in the world. The temple and gardens are listed as Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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At Kodai-ji temple there are several formal gardens designed by Kobori Enshu, who was an architect and master Zen gardener, as well as a master of calligraphy, poetry, and tea ceremony. Kodaiji's south garden is a karesansui, or dry rock garden featuring a large area of raked gravel that is punctuated by conical gravel formations and surrounded by a border of moss and stone. The raked gravel of a karesansui is meant to evoke the ripple patterns that form in water.
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Hama Rikyu, the garden of a feudal lord's residence during the Edo Period, is one of Tokyo's most attractive landscape gardens. It is located next to Tokyo Bay, beside the futuristic Shiodome district. Seawater ponds, former duck hunting grounds, forested areas and a teahouse in the middle of the pond are some of the park's attractions. Furthermore, the contrast between the traditional gardens with Shiodome's skyscrapers in the background is spectacular.
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Kodai-ji Temple is located at the foot of Higashiyama Ryozen Mountains in Kyoto. It is officially called Kodaiji Jushozenji Temple and was established in 1606. Tokugawa Ieyasu - the first Tokugawa shogun - financed the construction of the temple resulting in its magnificent appearance. Many of its buildings and tea houses. Kodaiji's garden is said to have been designed by the landscape garden designer Kobori Enshu. The garden is designated by the Japanese Government as a historical site and a place of scenic beauty. Kodaiji south garden is a karesansui or dry rock garden that features raked gravel punctuated by conical formations and surrounded by borders of moss and stone.
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Kaminarimon "Thunder Gate" is the outer of two large entrance gates that ultimately leads to Sensoji Temple. The gate's most famous feature is the huge red lantern. Sensoji is Tokyo's oldest temple and one of its most significant. Formerly associated with the Tendai sect, it became independent after World War II. Adjacent to the temple is Asakusa Shrine.