Ryōan-ji dry garden
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Title
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Ryōan-ji dry garden
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Description
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The "dry landscape" garden is also called Japanese rock garden (枯山水 karesansui), mostly known as a zen garden. The garden is a rectangle of 248 square meters.Placed within it are fifteen stones of different sizes, carefully composed in five groups; one group of five stones, two groups of three, and two groups of two stones.
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Creator
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Hosokawa Katsumoto
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Source
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13 Ryoanji Goryonoshita-chō, Ukyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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Date
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1450
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Type
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Zen garden in a temple
