Japanese gardening is a cultural type of gardening that is intended to create a scenery that mimes nature as much as possible by utilizing trees, bushes, stones, sand, man-made hills, pools, and running water as art forms.  The Zen Buddhism and Shintoistic traditions are both a prominent part of Japanese gardens and, because of this; the gardens have a meditative and contemplative state of mind.  Japanese gardening is a great deal dissimilar to the Western style and most people would say it is far more meditational and soul comforting.

In Japanese gardening, there are three common techniques for scenery.  The first of these is decreased scale.  Minimized scale is the art of getting an actual scene from nature, mountains, rivers, trees, and all, and reproducing it on a humbler scale.   Symbolic representation involves generalisation and abstraction.  An example of this would be utilizing white sand to indicate the sea.  Adopted views refers to artists who would use something like an ocean a woodland as a backdrop, but it would end up turning into an significant part of the scene.

There are basically two types of Japanese gardens: tsukiyami, which is a mound garden and mainly compiled of hills and pools.  The second one is hiraniwa, which is, in essence, the exact reverse of tsukiyami: a level garden with no mounds or pools.

The primary components used in Japanese gardening include crushed rock, water, moss, stones, fences, and hedges.  Rocks are mostly used as centre pieces and add a presence of spirituality to the garden.  According to the Shintoistic tradition rocks personify the spirits of nature.  Gravel is used as a defining surface and is employed to simulate the flowing of water when organized the right way.  Stones are used to produce an edge and are carved into the figure of lanterns.  Water, whether it be in the form of a pool, stream, or falls, is an all-important part of the Japanese garden.  It may be in the literal form of water or impersonated by crushed rock, but regardless what form water is in, it is essential to a Japanese garden's balance.

There are many sorts and types of plant life that of Japanese gardening, the primary one being Bonsai.

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