{"id":90,"date":"2006-02-08T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T22:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oclandscape.com.previewdns.com\/ocblog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T04:13:04","slug":"gardens-of-kyoto-ryoan-ji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/gardens-of-kyoto-ryoan-ji\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardens of Kyoto- Ryoan-ji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #6699cc;\">Ryoan-ji<\/span> (meaning &#8220;The Temple of the Peaceful Dragon&#8221;) is the archetypal Japanese rock garden. The small table top rock gardens that have become popular owe their inspiration in part to the 15th century anonymous <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zen_garden\"><span style=\"color: #6699cc;\">karesansui<\/span><\/a><\/em> masterpiece of Ryoan-ji. The garden has a unique axial configuration, so that, from any fixed point on the ground, one cannot see all of the stones in the garden. It is the ultimate rock garden of contemplation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/archives\/rj1.JPG\" alt=\"rj1.JPG\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/archives\/rj2.JPG\" alt=\"rj2.JPG\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More:<\/strong><br \/>\nProfile at <span style=\"color: #6699cc;\">JGarden.org<\/span><br \/>\nArticle from <span style=\"color: #6699cc;\">New<br \/>\nScientist<\/span> about Ryoan-ji&#8217;s appeal<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #6699cc;\">Article<\/span> about adding elements of Zen Garden design to<br \/>\ngarden projects<\/p>\n<p class=\"posted\"><span style=\"color: #6699cc;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryoan-ji (meaning &#8220;The Temple of the Peaceful Dragon&#8221;) is the archetypal Japanese rock garden. The small table top rock gardens that have become popular owe their inspiration in part to the 15th century anonymous karesansui masterpiece of Ryoan-ji. The garden has a unique axial configuration, so that, from any fixed point on the ground, one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/gardens-of-kyoto-ryoan-ji\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gardens of Kyoto- Ryoan-ji<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3732,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}