Japanese Garden Features
The empty space between the different planes has a great importance and is filled with water moss or sand.
Japanese garden features. Japanese gardens also follow the principles of perspective of japanese landscape painting which feature a close up plane an intermediate plane and a distant plane. This balance is not so much an issue of symmetry as it is a concern of space. Japanese gardens are generally classified according to the nature of the terrain either tsuki yama artificial hills or hira niwa level ground each having particular features. One of the most important aspects emphasized in all japanese gardens is balance.
The dry landscape garden 枯山水 karesansui is the best known type of japanese garden type and is often called zen garden while monks do use them when practicing zen meditation more commonly takes place in groups in large rooms often with no window. Tsuki yama consists of hills and ponds and hira niwa consists of flat ground designed to represent a valley or moor. Components of the garden should be carefully chosen. The following are some of the most commonly employed elements.
Design features of japanese gardens. Stones gravel and sand. Everything in a garden should be balanced but not necessarily even. Tsuki yama may include a portion laid out as hira niwa.