Here are some of the most celebrated Japanese landscape gardens in Tokyo, which offer particularly fine examples of all the elements that make up a traditional nihon teien (Japanese garden).

Eduardo Rubiano Moncada The Paradise Garden reflects Japanese landscape design of the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods in the 13th and 14th centuries. Eduardo Rubiano Moncada Crimson flower ...

The indigenous Shintō faith, the introduction of Buddhism, the influence of Christianity, and the rise of new religions after World War II have all shaped the Japanese religious landscape.

The classical Japanese garden is a landscape, artificially contrived, and redolent of symbolism. Contour and contrast are everything; color is unimportant, except for a small accent. The purple is ...