Japanese Gardening is a cultural form of gardening is a scene that mimics nature as much as possible to produce trees, shrubs, stones, sand, artificial hills, ponds and flowing water as art form. Zen and Shinto traditions have both a large part of Japanese gardening, and therefore, the gardens have a contemplative state, representative of the mind. Japanese garden is very different from the style of the West and most would say it is much more gentle, meditation and soul.

In Japanese gardens, there are three basic methods for the landscape. The first level is reduced. The scale is the art of a real scene of nature, mountains, rivers, trees and everything, and play in a smaller scale. Symbols for means of generalization and abstraction. An example would be to use white sand to suggest the ocean. refers borrowed time for artists to use something like an ocean a forest as a backdrop, but would become an important part of the scene.

There are two main types of Japanese gardening: a Tsukiyama garden hill and consists mainly of hills and lakes. The other is hiraniwa, which basically means the opposite of a Tsukiyama garden flat, without hills or ponds.

The basic elements of Japanese gardening and landscaping stones, gravel, water, moss, stones, fences and hedges used. The rocks are used as a center of spirituality and make a presence in the garden. According to Shinto tradition rock represent nature spirits. The gravel will be used as a means of defining the surface and is used to simulate the flow of water when arranged properly. The stones are used to create a boundary and are sculpted in the form of lanterns. Water, either in the form of a pond, stream or waterfall, is an essential part of a Japanese garden. It can in the present form of water or Interpreted by gravel, but no matter what the water is in great shape, it is crucial to balance Japanese garden.

There are different forms and types of plants that are signature to the Japanese garden, bonsai most important. Bonsai is the art of training everyday, average plants, such as pine, cypress, holly, cedar, cherry, maple and beech, beautiful appearance, trees, beside the form of miniatures. These trees, five centimeters to one meter and are reduced in size by cutting, potting, pinching of growth, and wiring the branches.

Japanese gardening is a tradition that the Muso Soseki, poet, crossed, said: “The gardens are the result of transformation.” A Japanese gardening is certainly a lot of different feelings and is definitely a transforming experience.

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