relation with water | Learning NIHON TEIEN (日本庭園) ~japanese style garden~

relation with water

For landscapes of great nature, 'water' is indispensable.

Therefore, Nihonteien have have some expressions of water.

And there is an another reason, too.

Water means 'amniotcfuild' of one's mother.

That is why the sounds of water feel us comfoterble.


In the garden, there is considaration for sounds of water.

The small drop in the babbing water, named "Seotoshi(瀬落し)",

makes beautiful laight sounds.

And the dropping and flowing water play a role for making

movement and variation in the garedns too.