An Analysis Of Japanese Gardening Art

The Japanese Garden is a branch of Chinese garden. Though Japanese garden completely copy Chinese garden in the early time, but the Japanese explore a particular development path after a long time of filtering and digesting. Dry landscape and Tea garden are proper forms of Japanese garden, and they are rich in strong flavor of zen and buddhist ideology. The nature in Japanese garden is far away from the realistic society, in addition, it is highly generalized. West Fang Temple is one of the oldest garden in Japan, began to found in the nara era, which belongs to Japan’s Dragon Temple send of Linji school, and it is the cultural heritage of world. West Fang Temple is the buds of Japan’s dry landscape, and it can be considered as an important turning point.therefore, it is worthy of study, the thesis includes three studiesIn this thesis, the study of Japanese garden landscape design combine with West Fang Temple garden, which involves three aspects:the first aspect is the development and the origin analysis of West Fang Temple. With narrating the literature and combining with geographical environment, climatic condition, local culture and aesthetic taste, the thesis discuss and analyze the origin of West Fang Temple; The second aspect is the research of Japanese gardening art, which mainly include distribution of garden, construction management, plant configuration, piling hill and placing stone, small ornaments of garden, doing water, bridge and park road these landscape elements to analyze the especial charm in the Japanese gardens.Combining with the analysis of Chinese traditional culture, the thesis study the Japanese garden how to deduce the unique development path; The third aspect is the Japanese garden of enlightenment and reflection on the modern landscape design, from the combination of local culture, respect for nature, rigorous and meticulous design attitude and pure childish down the temperament of the several aspects, for the modern landscape design to provide reference and enlightenment.