A Japanese garden is not your ordinary garden

Japanese gardening is very different from Western-style garden. Most would say that a Japanese garden is much softer than the soul and inspires meditation. Japanese gardening is a cultural form of gardening that aims to produce a scene that mimics nature as much as possible. The use of trees, shrubs, rocks, sand, artificial hills, ponds, running water and the garden is an art form. Zen and Shinto traditions are both a big part of Japanese gardening and, therefore, the gardens have a contemplative and representative of the spirit.
The basic methods of the landscape is a reduced scale, symbolization, and borrowed views. scale is the art of the real scene of nature, mountains, rivers, trees, and is played on a smaller scale. Symbolism associated with the generalization and abstraction. An example of this would suggest using white sand of the sea. Borrowed views to artists who are using something like the sea or the forest in the background, but ended up becoming an important part of the scene. There are two types of Japanese gardens. Tsukiyama garden is a hill garden and mainly consists of rolling hills and lakes. Hiraniwa, which is the exact opposite Tsukiyama garden is flat, without hills or ponds. The basic elements used in the Japanese garden are stones, gravel, water, moss, rocks, fences and hedges. Rocks used for centerpieces, and that the presence of spirituality to the garden. According to Shinto tradition, the stone reflects the nature spirits.