Japanese Zen Garden Garden & Landscape Design
Garden & Landscape design style — origin, materials, color palette, and how to apply it
Color Palette
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Key Characteristics
Meditative simplicitySymbolic stone placementRaked gravel patternsBamboo water featuresMoss and fern understory
Primary Materials
- Raked white gravel
- Moss groundcover
- Stone lanterns
- Bamboo fencing
- Granite boulders
Origin & History
Japanese Zen gardens (karesansui) originated in medieval Zen Buddhist monasteries as spaces for meditation — using raked gravel to represent water and carefully placed stones to symbolize mountains and islands.
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