Brief Japanese Garden Designs History

Japanese garden designs can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, and at historical landmarks such as Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and old castles. Some of the most famous Japanese garden designs in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, karesansui. In Japanese culture, garden-making is a high art, intimately related to the linked arts of calligraphy and ink painting. Since the end of the 19th century, Japanese gardens have also been adapted to Western settings.