The Japanese dry garden or Japanese rock garden, often called a Zen garden, is a distinctive style of Japanese garden. It creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements
Ryōan-ji (late 16th century) in Kyoto, Japan, a famous example of a Zen garden
A mountain, waterfall, and gravel "river" at Daisen-in (1509–1513)
Saihō-ji The Moss Garden, an early Zen garden from the mid-14th century. The moss arrived much later, when the garden was not tended.
The garden of Ginkaku-ji features a replica of Mount Fuji made of gravel, in a gravel sea. it was the model for similar miniature mountains in Japanese gardens for centuries.
Taizō-in is one of the tatchū sub-temples of Myōshin-ji, a Rinzai school Zen Buddhist temple in the Hanazono neighborhood of Ukyō-ku in the city of Kyoto, Japan. It is one of the few of Myōshin-ji's s
Taizō-in Hōjō
Catching catfish with a gourd (Hyōnen-zu) by Josetsu (National Treasure)