Rock Garden

The rock gardens were mainly influence by Buddhism. This rock garden is 30 meters long from east to west and 10 meters from north to south. This is a very particular garden because it does not have the usual elements that most people identify when they think of Japanese gardens. There is no trees or water. The whole terrain is cover by a layer of white pebbles, and there is 15 stones of different shapes and sizes that are place on top of islands that seem to emerged from the white pebbles. The use of the white pebbles has a symbolic representation of natural landscape giving the notion that it would be water. The white pebbles are given a pattern recalling the notion of waves of water movement. The arrangement of the 15 stones are done in a way that one can only see a total of 14 from whichever angle the garden is viewed making the viewer move around in order to see the 15 stones. The purpose of this garden was to come observe and meditate in front of the garden.