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Japanese gardens (日本庭園) in the ancient tradition of Japan can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, at Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines, and at historical landmarks such as old castles. Many of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are Zen gardens.

Typical Japanese gardens contain several of these elements, real or symbolic:


Japanese gardens might fall into one of these styles:


Many Zen temples feature a garden in the karesansui (or karesenzui, kosansui, kosensui 枯山水: dry landscape) style. These have no water, but typically evoke a feeling of water using pebbles. Rocks chosen for their intriguing shapes and patterns, mosses and low shrubs typify the karesansui style. The garden at Ryoan-ji, a temple in Kyoto, is particularly renowned.


Other gardens also use similar rocks for decoration. Some of these come from distant parts of Japan. In addition, bamboos and related plants, evergreens including Japanese black pine, and such deciduous trees as maples grow above a carpet of ferns and mossThis is an article about the plant. For other uses, see Moss (disambiguation Andreaeidae Sphagnidae Tetraphidae Polytrichidae Buxbaumiidae Bryidae Archidiidae Moss is a type of simple or nonvascular plant, of the class Musci in the division Bryophyta, thaes.

Shakkei (借景), borrowed scenery, is a technique Japanese gardeners use to make a small garden seem more spacious. By judiciously planting shrubs to block the view of nearby structures, they encourage the viewer to look up toward the mountains, and to think of them as part of the garden.

Some other especially noteworthy gardens within and outside of Japan are:



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