JAPANESE GARDEN STYLES

Commonly, Japanese gardens have pond in the centre, and inequalities of the ground or artificial hills on which garden stones, trees and plants are placed, in order to represent seasonal changes in the scenery . One of the popular techniques used in the gardens are the techniqu to express the way the water flows from deep in the mountains andgrad ually become bigger stream by creating artificial water falls . There are also popular technique to stand and combine rocks and stones , and technique to imitate penglaishan , a crane island , and a turtle is land in order to add religious meaning the garden . Lanterns , arbours and tea houses are also often placed throughout . Since the muromachi era , gardens in which water but by stones , sand and plants have appeared . This technique is called dry landscape" style . After the Edo Period , the technique called" borrowed scenery" , which takes advantage of the landscape outside the garden , was also used .