Meaning of karesansui | Babel Free

Definitions

A Japanese rock garden or Zen garden.

attributive, often

Examples

“Wall of offices, windows, the fabulous design of the Japanese architects—and the surrounding gardens of dwarf evergreens, rocks, the karesansui landscape, sand imitating a dried-up stream winding past roots, among simple, irregular flat stones….”

“Suden commissioned master garden-designer Kobori Enshu to build the karesansui garden south of the hojo.”

“To some observers a karesansui is just twigs, rocks and grit.”

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