{"id":92,"date":"2006-02-06T15:43:43","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T22:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oclandscape.com.previewdns.com\/ocblog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T04:13:04","slug":"gardens-of-japan-ginkaku-ji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/gardens-of-japan-ginkaku-ji\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardens of Japan- Ginkaku-ji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyoto the historical capital of Japan (prior to the move of power to Tokyo in the 19th century), is a striking city full of history and captivating gardens. One of the best preserved major cities in Japan (surviving World War II), it features a wealth of shrines, temples and gardens.<\/p>\n<p>The Silver Pavilion, or <span style=\"color: #6699cc;\">Ginkaku-ji<\/span>, is one Kyoto&#8217;s most famous temples and houses one of the city&#8217;s greatest gardens. The striking piles of raked and formed mounds of gravel and stone are wonders to behold. The Silver Pavilion itself is a rare original example of architecture from its period. Often temples and shrines were burned by feuding Shoguns and many have been reconstructed numerous times.<\/p>\n<p>The entrance to the temple complex features a two story Camellia hedge, precisely clipped and indicative of the meticulous nature of the gardens inside. Once inside the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zen_garden\"><span style=\"color: #6699cc;\">Karesansui<\/span><\/a> forms are like nothing else in the gardens of Kyoto. The craft here is amazing, and the raked gravel takes on an appearance of solid mass that should be impossible.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/archives\/gk13b.JPG\" alt=\"gk13b.JPG\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/archives\/gk29b.JPG\" alt=\"gk29b.JPG\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More:<\/strong><br \/>\nDetails from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ginkaku-ji\"><span style=\"color: #6699cc;\">Wikipedia<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #6699cc;\">Jgarden.org<\/span> index of Japanese Gardens<\/p>\n<p class=\"posted\"><span style=\"color: #6699cc;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyoto the historical capital of Japan (prior to the move of power to Tokyo in the 19th century), is a striking city full of history and captivating gardens. One of the best preserved major cities in Japan (surviving World War II), it features a wealth of shrines, temples and gardens. The Silver Pavilion, or Ginkaku-ji, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/gardens-of-japan-ginkaku-ji\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gardens of Japan- Ginkaku-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\/92"}],"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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}