In the late sixth century, Zen Buddhist monks began creating simple gardens as a tranquil space for meditation. These karesansui, translated to dry landscape or dry mountain water in Japanese ...

the elements discussed above should not be a prescription for design, but rather an inspiration and guide. “Please do not put a Japanese shoji screen into your house–that's so 1980,” he says.

22, No. 1, 2012 Visual Preference for Garden Design: App... Visual Preference for Garden Design: Appreciation of the Japanese Garden This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.