Japan has a distinctive tradition of creating wonderful gardens both private and public.
This
tradition has been in practice since a long period
Japanese history.
Gardens are created mainly to represent the beauty of nature and have a refreshing as well as aesthetic touch at a home or in the community life in general.
There are mainly three types of Japanese gardens that are found in abundance all through Japan and its various regions. These three types of gardens are, Tsukiyama Gardens or hill gardens, Karesansui Gardens that are generally dry garden embodying abstract artistic ideas and the third one is Chaniwa Gardens that are traditional tea ceremony gardens.
- Tsukiyama Gardens : Tsukiyama means hills that are artificially created. This kind of gardens try to capture the several beauties of nature in a small frame.
- Karesansui Gardens : This type of Japanese garden has a close association with the spiritual aspect of life and tries to represent nature in an abstract and at the same time in an aesthetic way.
- Chaniwa Garedens : This type gardens are associated deeply with a Japanese tradition of celebrating tea ceremony or 'Sado'. In the garden there is a house where the ceremony is celebrated. A stone way leads to the house while stone lanterns illuminates the road. Guests are required to wash themselves in a stone basin before participating in the ceremony.
In several prefectures of
Japan many famous and beautiful
gardens are created.
Kyoto, the beauty queen of
Japan has many breathtakingly attractive imperial
gardens in its vicinity like the Katsura Villa garden, Imperial Palace garden etc.
Tokyo has Hama Rikyu Park, Palace East
Garden and many other beautiful
gardens that attracts innumerable visitors.
