Japanese gardens

Japanese gardens come from the antic japanese tradition. We can find them: in private house, in the parcs of the cities, in buddhist temples, in shinto shrines or and at historical landmarks such as old castles.

Most famous Japanese gardens in Occident and in Japan are dry gardens or rock gardens. Their japanese name is "karesansui". These gardens are, most of them, composed of sand, quart and stones.

The tradition of the Tea masters has produced highly refined Japanese gardens of an another style, evoking the rural simplicity. In these gardens there are neither trees, nor bushes, nor flowers, nor stones, nor sand. The archetype of these gardens contains only water, Falls of waters, casacades, ponds, wells and ponds. We have to notice Tea ceremony are solemn and formal rite without religious but spiritual contents, that's why the landscape is so sober.