Japanese Gardens

Japanese Gardens posts cover an old design tradition with strict conventions. Articles look at the difference between a stroll garden, a dry karesansui rock garden, a tea garden and a courtyard tsuboniwa, the role of borrowed scenery known as shakkei, the placement of stones in groups of odd numbers, the use of moss instead of grass, the slow growth of pruned pines and the way water is suggested with raked gravel where there is no real stream. There are also notes on famous gardens like Kenroku-en in Kanazawa, Korakuen in Okayama and the Adachi garden.