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Japanese Garden Design - Water Gardens


Japanese garden design often features water as an integral part of the overall design.  In general, garden features are used to represent something larger in nature.  So water of various sizes generally represents or tells a story about something in the larger world.   Rocks portray mountains.  Small ponds signify lakes and larger ponds indicate oceans.  

Japanese garden design is about telling a story in a small space.

Here's a short video featuring the way water is used in the Anderson Japanese Garden in Rockford, Illinois.   This is a large public garden and well worth a visit.








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