In a Japanese Garden

Loading…
At Daichi-ji near Kyoto, guests can sample tea cakes while savoring the undulating azalea hedge that is the garden.
This contemporary garden in the local government office of Tokyo's Azabu district features a granite sea studded with gilded ...
A dreamy haze over Takaragawa hot springs envelops a bather preparing to contemplate the beauty of the autumn foliage.
Enamored of Mount Fuji after many visits, a feudal lord named Hosokawa Tadatoshi decided upon returning home to Kumamoto to e...
9232900006
The province of meditative monks in the early morning and evening hours, Ryoan-ji is a requisite stop for busloads of student...
Perched on a rock at Kyoto's Ryoan-ji, a Buddhist monk is intent upon meticulously raking the fine gravel sea that swirls aro...
At the temple of Tofukuji in Kyoto a checkerboard pattern of coarse sand imposes an artful symmetry on an ever shifting mediu...
An enchanted world in shades of green, Kyoto's Saihoji garden - known as the Moss Temple - is carpeted by some 120 varieties ...
Japanese Garden- at Sanzen-in in Kyoto, fallen maple leaves on a blanket of sukigoke moss serve as reminders of the cycles o...
Miniature Mount Fuji
To keep gardens pristine, workers even remove stray pine needles.
Feudal lords and courtesans of the 18th century once composed poems seated by this stream in the covered pavilion at Korakuen...
At a rock center in Ibigawa, rocks collected from rivers, mountains, and fields are cleaned, sorted, and valued according to ...
An eight-fold bridge at Koraku-en inOkayama
Begun in 1687 for a feudal lord in Okayama, the 32-acre garden was modeled on its then famous namesake in Tokyo. The correct ...
7020200017
Special "snow jackets" lend a jaunty air to palm trees at Kyoto's Jonangu shrine.
The seas that surround Japan are rife with sacred significance.
Tributes to nature appear in unexpected places: tucked away on a rooftop, between tracks of a railroad, or even in the rest r...
Flashes of living color, brilliant carp flit through pond waters at Takaragawa hot springs. A symbol of strength, longevity, ...
To ensure that the waters run crystal clear in the streambed at Kenrokuen, "river washers" labor from morning till dusk, swee...
Bonzai tree casting shadow on a white wall.
120730027
120730036
120731001
120802032
120802043
120802044
120711035
Ryoan-ji, Kyoto, Japan.
Suirakuen Japanese Garden.
9232900002
9232900003
9232900004
9232900005
9232900001
A tea devotee cleanses his hands prior to a ceremony held at the Yabunouchi Tea School in Kyoto, Japan.
Despite appearing to be the height of simplicity , swept sand and rock gardens like demand excruciatingly conscientious care.
7020800021
Despite appearing to be the height of simplicity , swept sand and rock gardens like demand excruciatingly conscientious care.
As shown here in the Shisendo Garden in Kyoto, Japanese gardens are so designed that the effect can be quite telescoped and d...
The Ritsurin Koen garden took more than a century to complete, and it is an eye-pleasing combination of bridges, ponds, and p...
A stand of swaying bamboo at Saiho-ji creates a natural fence. Rustling stalks add the dimension of sound to the garden's atm...
Yuki-Zuri, rope canopies protect the 160-year-old pine trees at Kenrokuen Garden from the weight of the snow.
A hishaku, bamboo ladle, sits on an ablution basin inset in a stone in the Ryoanji rock garden in Kyoto. Ritual cleanliness i...
A semi-traditional garden of the Adachi Museum in Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture. This quiet town was for many years home to...
Stones and pebbles create the illusion of rushing water
7020200003
7020200004