In the late sixth century, Zen Buddhist monks began creating simple gardens as a tranquil space for meditation. These karesansui, translated to dry landscape or dry mountain water in Japanese ...

Rock and sand are primarily used in a dry garden ... Water elements are a common feature in Japanese gardens. Photo by Kevin Legnon. The Zen garden, also known as a rock garden, is usually ...

Zen rock gardens, or karesansui (translated as "dry-mountain-water"), originated ... of great beauty," says James Ulak, curator of Japanese art at Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler galleries ...

The first new watch in the series, the Presage Japanese Zen Gardens SSA463J1 comes in ... that represents raked sand within a Japanese dry garden. The hour markers are in Roman numerals and ...

Garden design is an important Japanese art form with an intricate ... up to the temple takes you through a zen stone garden famed for its karensui (dry landscape) with intricately raked gravel.