Discuss the Japanese Zen gardens and their primary features.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
- Zen gardens might have been inspired by the gardens surrounding shogun palaces such as Kinkakuji; designers made gardens a regular feature of Muromachi Zen temples, especially the karesansui, or "withered" or dry landscape garden.
- Zen gardens increasingly focused their attention on rocks and a few carefully groomed plants as the primary feature of garden design.
- Zen gardens, like the garden in Daisen-in, might be best viewed as a narrative, perhaps a metaphor for the passage of time, or even the passage of a Zen Buddhist philosopher from the relative complexity and confusion of early life to the expansive simplicity of enlightenment.
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