Kare-san-sui
Kare-san-sui ( Japanese 枯 山水 , dt. “Dry landscape” or 涸 ausget “dry landscape”), also Kasansui ( 仮 山水 “fake landscape”), Furusansui ( 故 山水 “old landscape”) or Arasensui ( 乾泉水 "Dry pond "), is a Japanese rock garden , a special form of the Japanese garden . This garden form, often called zen garden in German colloquially , is also known as "dry garden" or "dry landscape garden", as it consists only of gravel , stones and boulders. With the exception of moss , no plants are used. Water is indicated by undulating structures in gravel or sand areas.
Both the raking of these rock gardens by Zen monks and the contemplation of the Kare-san-sui are considered part of meditation .
elements
Line pattern
Curved lines that are drawn more or less deep and wide in the gravel or sand surfaces with the wooden rake usually symbolize natural structures such as streams or other bodies of water. It is important that no beginning or end of the lines can be seen. The patterns should be laid out in such a way that the lines merge and the stone settings are highlighted. There are also gardens with strictly geometric patterns.
Stones
The arrangement of the stones should not result in a geometric shape, based entirely on the random structure of nature. You should also avoid an even number. Usually there are five or seven stones that are grouped together or placed individually. The water lines should flow around the previously placed stones. The variant of first drawing the lines in the sand and then placing the stones does not correspond to the image from nature.
According to recent research, the effect of the garden of Ryōan-ji in Kyoto could be based on the seemingly random arrangement of the stones.
miniature
Zen garden miniatures , which are used for relaxation and invite you to playful meditation , are more recent developments. They usually consist of a rectangular frame in which there are coarse to fine-grain sand as well as stones or colored semi-precious stones. This usually includes a small wooden rake that can be used to structure the sand surface.
Web links
- Grünlandstaudenhof - Article about the Kare-san-sui garden
Individual evidence
- ↑ Van Tonder et al .: Visual structure of a Japanese Zen garden. Nature. 2002; 419 (6905): 359-60. PMID 12353024 full text (PDF; 102 kB)
- ↑ See Christian Tagsold: Spaces in Translation. Japanese Gardens and the West. Philadelphia 2017, pp. 180-184.