The landscaping around the pond is just as important as the pond itself and often includes at least one garden path idea, walkways, bridges, and gates. 'Pathways are used in Japanese gardens to ...

Looking to transform your plot into a haven of serenity? Our small Japanese garden ideas will be sure to help you on your way ...

Kato said there are three principles common across Japanese gardens: stones, water and plants. Stones act as the bones of the landscape, and water is highlighted as the life-giving force.

Brown calls an "external and internal discovery." Brown's well-researched, new book, "Visionary Landscapes," reveals that Japanese-style gardens are so popular that most are outside of Japan.

His book, "Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens: Design Principles, Aesthetic Values," is regarded as a classic for its presentation of landscape design principles and translation of ...

Some people hired Portland landscape designer Hoichi Kurisu, the one-time landscape director for the Japanese Garden Society in Portland who, starting in 1963, supervised the construction of the ...

A Japanese garden is meant to mimic the natural landscape, as seen from afar, where the distinct geometrical shapes of trees and shrubs are visible. The constant pruning of Japanese garden plants ...

Takeo Uesugi, a landscape architect who melded the principles of traditional Japanese gardens to the modernism of postwar California, where he carried on his ancestral legacy as a 14th-generation ...

Opened in 1992, the garden is the vision of Japanese landscape designer Ken Nakajima. It features a tea garden, a kaiyushiki stroll garden and a scroll garden. There's also a yukimi lantern ...

Renowned Japanese garden landscape designer Shiro Nakane is designing the garden. The garden will include a traditional Japanese tea house designed to introduce the Japanese tea ceremony ...