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Jap gardening is much different to the Western style garden.  Most would say a jap garden is much more soul calming and impresses meditation.  Jap gardening is a cultural type of gardening that is supposed to produce a scene that mimics nature as much as feasible.  Using trees, shrubs, rocks, sand, artificial hills, pools, and trickling water the garden becomes an art form.  The Zen and Shinto traditions are both a huge part of jap gardening and, because of this ; the gardens have a contemplative and reflective mental condition. 

The basic techniques of scenery in are a reduced scale, symbolization, and borrowed views.  The reduced scale is the art of taking a tangible scene from nature, mountains, brooks, trees, and reproducing it on a smaller scale.  Symbolization involves generalization and condensation.  An example of this would be using white sand to suggest the sea.  Borrowed views refer to artists that would use something similar to an ocean or a forest as a background, but it would finish up becoming a very important part of the scene. 

There are two types of jap gardening.  The tsukiyami garden is a hill garden and mainly composed from hills and pools.  The hiraniwa, which is the precise opposite of the tsukiyami garden, is a flat without any hills or ponds. 

The basic components employed in Japanese gardening include rocks, gravel, water, moss, stones, fences, and hedges.  Rocks are used as centerpieces and bring a presence of spirituality to the garden.  According to the Shinto convention, rocks embody the spirits of nature.  Gravel defines surface and is used to imitate the flow of water when prepared properly.  Stones create a boundary and are sculpted into the form of lanterns.  Water ; if it is in the shape of a pond, stream, or waterfall, is an essential part of an Eastern garden.  It can be in the actual kind of water or portrayed by gravel, but regardless of what, it is essential to a jap gardens balance. 

there are many forms and kinds of plants that are signature of jap gardening, the main one being Bonsai.  Bonsai is the art of coaching each day average plants,eg Pine, Cypress, Holly, Cedar, Cherry, Maple, and Beech, to appear like enormous, old trees just in small form.  These trees range from five centimeters to one meter and are kept small by pruning, re-potting, pinching of growth, and wiring the branches. 

A garden is an excellent place to relax and meditate.  Whether it is a jap garden or Western world garden, coming up with, building, and planting is a great family event.

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