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. "seated appreciation style garden." A modern term designating gardens meant to be seen or "appreciated" from a fixed…

Lit. "stone for seated meditation." A large, flat-topped stone which is used for, or thought to be appropriate for…

Lit. "Zen 禅 temple style gardens." A modern term designating the various types of gardens associated with Zen sect temples…

Lit. "coin shape water basin." A type of round water basins *chōzubachi 手水鉢…

Lit. "early style dry landscape." The Heian period arrangement of stones in areas with neither a pond nor stream. The 11th-…

Lit. "front garden." A general term referring to the garden in front of a building. In contrast to the main garden which is…