One of Japan’s most famous Zen gardens located in the Daisen-in (Great Hermit’s Temple), a sub-temple of the main temple of Daitoku-ji in northern Kyoto.
The Daisen-in was founded in 1509 by the Zen priest Kogaku Sotan (1464-1548) upon his retirement as abbot of Daitoku-ji.
The entire complex is one of the most famous examples of the [...]
Ry?an-ji (Shinjitai: Ky?jitai: The Temple of the Peaceful Dragon) is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan. Belonging to the Myoshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism, the temple is one of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The site of the temple was originally a Fujiwara family [...]
Rikugien is one of Tokyo’s most beautiful, Japanese style landscape gardens. Built around 1700 by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, Rikugien literally means “six poems garden” and reproduces in miniature 88 scenes from famous poems.
Rikugien is quite a spacious garden with a central pond, islands, forested areas, man made hills and several teahouses. It takes about an [...]
