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Book cover of stephen mansfield japanese stone gardens. Japanese stone gardens author and photojournalist discusses his latest book. See more ideas about garden design, japan garden and japanese garden design. Masaji morai using traditional garden elements and architecture. The japanese rock garden, karesansui or dry landscape garden, often called a zen garden, creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water. The first known book on the art of the japanese garden, the sakuteiki. Stone gardens existed in japan at least since the heian period 7941185.
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