Popularly recognised as one of Japan’s three greatest gardens, Kenrokuen in Kanazawa took 200 years to create. It was set out ...

In an age of ever-increasing noise and activity, the chance to catch a moment of silent serenity and contemplation feels like a breath of fresh air, at once re-centering and refreshing. Creating such ...

If you’ve ever been to a Japanese garden, you’ll remember the extraordinary sense of peace and tranquillity these gardens help inspire. Japanese gardens also look very different from Western ...

One of the extraordinary things about Japanese garden design is how immediately identifiable it is to the western eye, yet how thoroughly it defies description. Even when earnest instructors try very ...

Debbie Wolfe is an author and content creator. In addition to being a contributing writer at Forbes, she writes for other leading online home improvement, DIY, and garden media outlets and online ...

Bamboo trees stand tall in this Japanese garden. Photo by Kevin Legnon. Noted for its minimalist style, natural landscape and tranquil nature, the Japanese garden is as much art as it is science. To ...

Japanese gardens are considered among the most beautiful in the world. Meditation gardens, also known as Zen gardens, were originally designed by Buddhist monks to be natural spaces of retreat for ...

You can learn basic elements of garden design by visiting the Japanese garden in Woodley Park in Van Nuys, starting with the entrance gates. There are three contiguous gates, but only one is open.

Ray Entenmann in his classic Frank Welch-designed condo. His furnishings include original mid-century pieces, and his book and art collection spans 50 years. Tending Japanese gardens keeps Ray ...

Tsukubais, like this one in the garden in front of the Prairie Village home of Fran Lemery, an honorary consul general of Japan, are for washing and purification before entering Japanese homes. PHOTOS ...

Sadafumi Uchiyama didn't talk much as he strolled Friday through the site of the Northern Botanic Garden Society's future Japanese garden in north Fargo. After all, the concept of a Japanese garden is ...

Takeo Uesugi, a landscape architect who melded the principles of traditional Japanese gardens to the modernism of postwar California, where he carried on his ancestral legacy as a 14th-generation ...