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Ryoanji Rock Garden
Fifteen stones on 75 square metres of gravel, placed so that from any viewpoint one is always hidden.
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Tofukuji Hojo Garden
Shigemori Mirei laid gardens on all four sides; the checkerboard of moss and stone brought modern design into the dry garden.
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Tenryuji Sogenchi Garden
Laid out by Muso Soseki and barely altered in 700 years, taking the mountains behind it into the garden itself.
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Katsura Imperial Villa
Three pavilions set diagonally so every room sees a different garden; Bruno Taut's account of it changed how the world read Japanese architecture.
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Shugakuin Imperial Villa
Three gardens up a hillside with working farmland kept between them, and a tea house at the top open to the whole basin.
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Amanohashidate
One of Japan's three great views, with a prescribed way of looking at it - bent over, upside down, between your own legs.
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Tea Fields of Uji
Fields shaded with reed screens and straw before harvest to sweeten the leaf - the covers themselves a seasonal sight.
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Dry Gardens of Kyoto
The garden that shows water without using any was perfected in Kyoto's Zen temples - mountain, river and sea in stone alone.