Lit. plum post. A wooden post used to support the heavy but structurally weak branches of old plum trees.

A cascade. A type of garden waterfall in which the water falls at a 90 degree angle. One common type of baku is the…

Also called hanchi 畔池 written with the character ばん池, to indicate a 'halved pond.' Lit. levee pond. A type of…

Lit. tail stone. A stone in a rock garden that represents the tail of a tortoise *…

Lit. garden of the Bugaku lineage. A style of Japanese garden developed in the middle of the Edo period by Ōishi Bugaku 大石武学…

Lit. "carp stone." A stone placed at the base of a waterfall to symbolize a carp swimming up the waterfall. Good examples…

A fence made of bamboo stakes that alternate with unpeeled wooden stakes. The bamboo and unpeeled stakes have the same…

Lit. "forest and stream."
The ancient word for garden. Rinsen first appeared in the 720 Nihon shoki…

A type of bamboo fence used at Ryōanji 龍安寺, a Zen temple in Kyoto. It is characterized by thick split bamboo that cross…

Also ryōmegaki 両目垣. An interlocking bamboo fence. Bamboo, about 3 cm in diameter, are cut in half vertically and…

A summer house, arbor or pavilion that provided a cool resting place in a garden.

Lit. "dragon pond style." A type of garden featuring a sharply curving pond reminiscent of a dragon's serpentine body. Good…

Lit. "dragon's gate cascade." One type of cascade *baku 瀑 found in Japanese…

Lit. "flowing water appreciation style garden."
A general term used to designate any garden focused around a stream.…

Lit. "flowing water style of pond and stream."
A type of water feature in a garden that includes a curving water course.…