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Meanings
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dry landscape garden; Japanese rock garden; kare-sansui
A traditional Japanese garden style using rocks, gravel, and sand to represent water and mountains without actual water. Often associated with Zen temples.
The dry landscape garden at Ryōan-ji in Kyoto is world-famous.
A kare-sansui garden expresses the flow of water using only sand and stones.