| Japanese garden, which originated from Chinese garden, was learning Chinese splendid culture while assimilating it with Japanese native culture in its long periods of historical development, finally came to maturity and developed to a unique style of garden in worldwide. As an integral factor in Japanese gardening, rock landscapes has always specially been paid attention in Japanese garden. Compared with the rock landscapes in Chinese garden, the rock landscapes in Japanese garden has developed to its own features, which contains the unique aesthetic consciousness of Japanese nation.Based on the study of the development of Japanese Gardening, the thesis studies and summarizes the rock landscapes in Japanese garden, there are four kinds of rock landscapes:rock landscapes to simulate ocean scene; rock landscapes to show itself;the dry landscape which uses rocks to show an ocean scene; and rock landscapes which was born in Tea Garden such as tobiishi, nobedan, tsukubai and stone lantern. Then it was pointed that the characteristics of rock landscapes in Japanese garden are two parts:one is the standard of choosing rocks, which prefers choosing natural and unadorned rocks; the other is the preference of a way of placing rock in a horizontal position.Based on these conclusions, the thesis explores the aesthetic consciousness of Japanese garden and holds the viewpoint that there are two factors which influence the aesthetic consciousness of Japanese garden. One is the Japanese primitive belief that natural rock is considered sacred; and the other is the sense that Japanese people treats ocean with a sense of awe and attachment.So it comes to the conclusion that the aesthetic consciousness of Japanese garden hide in three parts:firstly the garden is thought as a holy place;secondly the garden is thought as a free kingdom; thirdly the garden is thought as a place where Zen priest and Samurai cultivate themselves. After all, Japanese garden shows an approach to the religious Tao.
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