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Travel+Leisure has a wonderful article on how to make the most of your trip to Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto, the pulsing heart of ...

It’s no coincidence if Japanese gardens remind you of those scene-in-a-shoebox dioramas you made in grade school. A Japanese ...

Can You Find Zen In This 3-D Geometric Puzzle? An artist known for his large street installations takes it indoors, where he plants some dystopia in his Zen Garden ...

[Nick] is working on a prototype of a coffee table sand plotter that draws patterns in sand a lot like a zen rock garden. [Nick]’s zen rock garden uses a magnet to draw a ball bearing across ...

[Nick] is working on a prototype of a coffee table sand plotter that draws patterns in sand a lot like a zen rock garden. [Nick]’s zen rock garden uses a magnet to draw a ball bearing across ...

Hannah Wallace If you need an escape from urban landscapes, seek out Zen-like tranquility at the Japanese Garden within Washington Park. The 12-acre Portland Japanese Garden is made up of eight ...

native Japanese plants, serene koi ponds, a five-story pagoda and a Zen garden. You’ll want to plan your visit foo March or April when the garden’s cherry blossom trees are in full bloom.

bringing with them ideas about the natural world that would become incorporated in the formal gardens of Japanese nobles. For example, the placement of one large rock surrounded by several smaller ...

The Japanese Garden in St Mawgan, Cornwall, has been named among the loveliest in the UK according to The Times ...

Kinkaku-ji, or the Golden Pavilion, is a Zen Buddhist temple and one of Kyoto's iconic sights. Its brilliant gold leaf ...

Japanese Zen gardens on Earth are created by raking sand or gravel into curving patterns that interact with features like rocks, trees and plants. So how did this odd pattern shake out on Mars?