Lit. "garden in the style of ink monochrome landscape painting." A modern term used for Chinese style dry gardens *karesansui 枯山水 and in contradistinction to pond and stream chisen 池泉 gardens supposedly related to "Japanese painting style" gardens *yamato-eshiki teien 大和絵式庭園. Because Japanese ink monochrome landscape painting is often based on Chinese Song dynasty landscape painting, some scholars have the further category of *hokusō sansuigashiki teien 北宋山水画式庭園.
There is a long tradition of associating dry rock gardens with landscape painters. While the stone garden attributed to Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊 (1420-1506) at Jōeiji 常栄寺, Yamaguchi Prefecture, bears scant resemblance to Sesshu's landscape paintings, the gardens at the Daisen-in 大仙院 at Daitokuji 大徳寺 attributed to Sōami 相阿弥 ( ? -1525) and at the Taizō'in 退蔵院 at Myōshinji 妙心寺 attributed to Kanō Motonobu 狩野元信 (1475-1559) do seem to suggest the composition of ink monochrome landscape paintings.