Garden design can include different themes such as perennial, butterfly, wildlife, Japanese, water, tropical, or shade gardens.

Category: Japanese gardens

Among the institutions connected with the university are the national institution for East Indian languages, ethnology and geography ; the botanical gardens, founded in 1587 ; the observatory ( 1860 ); the museum of antiquities ( Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ); and the ethnographical museum, of which P. F. von Siebold's Japanese collections was the nucleus ( Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde ).

The wild Clematis species native to China made their way into Japanese gardens by the 17th century.

Japanese garden selections were the first exotic clematises to reach European gardens, in the 18th century, long before the Chinese species were identified in their native haunts at the end of the 19th century.

* Serene Gardens – A destination garden center and Cafe / restaurant serving authentic Japanese cuisine and specializing in Japanese sukiya style gardens.

* Shinjuku Gyoen is a large park, 58. 3 hectares, 3. 5 km in circumference, blending Japanese traditional, English Landscape and French Formal style gardens.

* Japanese gardens, Zen gardens and bonsai ( tray gardens )

Category: Japanese gardens

Yamagata was a talented garden designer, and today the gardens he designed are considered masterpieces of Japanese gardens.

This property, his second home in that area, with eight bedrooms and bathrooms, an " Irish bar " in the basement, tennis courts, Japanese and English themed gardens and swimming and tennis facilities, was sold for around $ US2. 4 million in 2000

Category: Japanese gardens

The gardens are divided into more than a dozen themes, including the Australian Garden, Camellia Collection, Children's Garden, Desert Garden Conservatory, Rose Hill Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science, Desert Garden, Herb Garden, Japanese Garden and Zen Garden, Lily Pond, North Vista, Palm Garden, Rose garden, Elizabethan Garden ( previously called the Shakespeare garden ), Subtropical and Jungle Garden, the Chinese Garden ( Liu Fang Yuan 流芳園 or the Garden of Flowing Fragrance ) now open in the northern area of the property, and America's largest collection of the sculptural and ' palm-like ' Cycads.

Category: Japanese gardens

Category: Japanese gardens

In contrast to Japanese and Chinese gardens which fill a garden with man made elements, traditional Korean gardens avoid artificialities, trying to make a garden more natural than nature.

Japanese Zen gardens ( karesansui, dry rock gardens ) make extensive use of Karikomi ( a topiary technique of clipping shrubs and trees into large curved shapes or sculptures ) and Hako-zukuri ( shrubs clipped into boxes and straight lines ).

Panoramic view from the Symbolic Mountain at the Japanese Garden s. The view takes in the gardens and the plains of the Cowra Shire Council | Cowra district across to the nearby mountains.

The garden was designed by Ken Nakajima ( 1914 – 2000 ), a world-renowned designer of Japanese gardens at the time.

The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.

Many of the features of the homes are the latest modern devices in American homes, but an interesting blend of cultures finds us using Japanese artfulness in our own Western architecture at the same time that the Japanese are adopting Western utility patterns.

Even today there are some doubts about the value of education for Japanese women, but this University continues to grow and to send its students out into the community.

The Momoyama family had come from Miyagi Prefecture, in the northeast of the main Japanese island of Honshu, where there are still traces of the mysterious Ainu strain.

Tommy, of course, had never heard of a kotowaza, or Japanese proverb, which says, `` Tanin yori miuchi '', and is literally translated as `` Relatives are better than strangers ''.

A number of fossil cryptobranchids have been found but there are only three living species, the Chinese giant salamander ( Andrias davidianus ), the Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus ) and the hellbender ( Cryptobranchus alleganiensis ) from North America.

* Japanese school calendar also starts from April 1, although Nyugakushiki ( entry ceremony for schools ) are usually held later, around second week of April.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

As a result, many Ainu are indistinguishable from their Japanese neighbors, but some Ainu-Japanese are interested in traditional Ainu culture.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

Most of the 888 Japanese people living in Russia ( 2010 Census ) are of mixed Japanese-Ainu ancestry, although they do not acknowledge it ( full Japanese ancestry gives them the right of visa-free entry to Japan ).

Recent research suggests that the historical Ainu culture originated in a merger of the Okhotsk culture with the Satsumon, one of the ancient archaeological cultures that are considered to have derived from the Jōmon period cultures of the Japanese Archipelago.

Full-blooded Ainu are lighter skinned than their Japanese neighbors and have more body hair.

The fact that haplogroups N9b and M7a were observed in Hokkaido Jomons bore out the hypothesis that these haplogroups are the ( pre -) Jomon contribution to the modern Japanese mtDNA pool.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

Due to intermarriage with the Japanese and ongoing absorption into the predominant culture, there are no truly Ainu settlements existing in Japan today.

Although there have been attempts to show that the Ainu language and the Japanese language are related, modern scholars have rejected that the relationship goes beyond contact, such as the mutual borrowing of words between Japanese and Ainu.

The first images picturing the distinct Japanese asymmetrical longbow are from the Yayoi period ( ca.

It is unknown when the asymmetrical yumi came into use but the first written record is in a Chinese manuscript from the 3rd century AD which describes the people of the Japanese islands using a wooden bow with upper and lower limbs of different lengths, and bamboo arrows with points of bone or iron.

Although they appear balanced, the arrangement of the front pleats, ( three to the right, two to the left ) is asymmetrical, and as such is an example of asymmetry in Japanese aesthetics.

In the Asia the asymmetrical traditions of Chinese gardens and Japanese gardens in planting design originated in the Jin Dynasty ( 265 – 420 ) of China.

The equally formal garden, without axial symmetry ( asymmetrical ) or other geometries, is the garden design tradition of Chinese gardens and Japanese gardens.

The Japanese Exhibit in the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition inspired the crazy quilt with its asymmetrical art.