Garden : Temples
- Published 2010.7.13
Japanese gardens have developed under the influence of China and Korea since the seventh century. Since then, Japan’s gardens have changed along with Japan’s architecture and religion ideology. An example of this is the Jodo Garden, which was made in the middle of the Heian period, around the tenth century. With a large pond with an island and an elevated bridge, the Jodo Garden has attempted to establish Sukhavati (pure paradise), on earth.
From the Kamakura period, it became popular to recreate a part of nature inside the garden by symbolically representing the true nature. Dry landscape gardens, which used arranged stones and white sand to recreate the color of water without actually building a pond, came into existence in the Muromachi period (thirteenth century).
