Japan is an island country with lots of rain. It is not surprising, that water is a very important part of every Japanese garden. The Bud...
Japan is an island country with lots of rain. It is not surprising, that water is a very important part of every Japanese garden. The Buddhism play a vital role in forming the official Japanese gardens, which emphasize formalism and tranquility. When creating Japanese gardens, the gardeners try to imitate nature's peace. In a Japanese garden almost everything represents a wilderness object.
One stone can represent a whole mountain, and a tree is a forest. A pool can represent a large lake. Because there are no square lakes in nature, they do not have a place in a Japanese garden either. Hilly and flowery gardens include even a real lake, even if it is just a symbolic lake of sand and stone. Landscape must include tree, creeping and other rare plants. One focal point is represented by the pool where ritual cleaning occurs. The fountains signal the time, the wells and bridges provide place where passing of the time is loses its validity.
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