Shakkei
Shakkei is the garden technique of visually incorporating scenery beyond the site through framing, layering, and controlled viewpoints.
Garden History
Tsukiyama
Tsukiyama are constructed hills that shape topography, views, and miniature landscape in Japanese gardens, often together with ponds.
Karesansui
Karesansui are dry landscape gardens that use stones, gravel, sand, and limited planting to suggest water and larger scenery.
Japanese Gardens
An introduction to the history, major types, materials, viewing practices, and cultural settings of gardens in Japan.