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Aim: In recent years in Japan, forest therapies have been implemented in various places. While the effects of such therapies have been reported in previous research papers, those of artificial gardens have not been clarified. At the 2018 Yamaguchi Yume Flower Expo, the Yamaguchi University Faculty of Medicine had the opportunity to provide a "Well-being Garden" in collaboration with the Japan Landscape Contractors Association Yamaguchi Prefecture Branch. We examined the physical and mental responses of older people who strolled in the Well-being Garden., Methods: Participants were 158 people ≥ 65 years old. Pre-and post-stroll interviews were conducted, and the heart rate, blood pressure, and autonomic nervous activities were measured., Results: After strolling in the garden, the heart rate significantly decreased from 76.1±12.9 to 73.9±11.8/min (p<0.01), and both the systolic and diastolic blood pressure significantly decreased from 142.5±24.4 to 139.4±24.1 mmHg and from 83.7±12.0 to 81.5±11.9 mmHg, respectively (p<0.01). The ralue of low frequency/high frequency (LF/HF) after strolling in the garden came closer to the standard one than before, both in the participants with much tension and with less tension. In the post-stroll interview, 74 reported feeling very good, and 84 felt good., Conclusions: These results suggested that strolling in the Well-being Garden positively influenced the physical and mental condition of the participants.

Landscape architecture and urban design disciplines could benefit from soundscape thinking in order to enhance experiential qualities in their projects, though the available tools are not yet fully developed nor tested. The present research aims to substantiate one of the available tools, Soundscape Actions, and thereby increase the understanding of soundscape design. The study focuses on the Japanese garden tradition, which is known for high preference ratings, tranquil qualities and consideration for sound and other sensory experiences. An autoethnographic approach was used to conduct field studies in 88 gardens in Japan, the majority of which are located in urban areas with potential noise disturbance. The studies are based on observations in situ, supported by video documentation, field recordings and readings of sound pressure levels (SPL). A total of 19 Soundscape Actions are described and discussed in the paper. They are structured around three main categories: localisation of functions, reduction of unwanted sounds and introduction of wanted sounds. The study provides concrete examples of how the tool can be used to enhance tranquil qualities, particularly focusing on small green spaces in dense urban settings, involving the (simultaneous) reduction of unwanted sounds and enhancement of wanted sounds/effects. The autoethnographic approach allowed for the phenomenological perspective to be brought forward, which contributed new insights regarding the design tool. The findings are discussed in relation to health and soundscape research, focusing on multisensory experiences, masking strategies and potentials for implementation and future developments of the design tool.

The article studied how to battle ocean pollution, in a Karesansui Garden with many splendid works in sixteen century Japanese gardens. Topics include images of Prince Genji and his companions were waves; and painted symphony of exquisitely arched waves, rising to crash against the forlorn shoreline into the karesansui dry rock garden at the Harn Museum of Art.

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The first public botanical garden of Korea, the Changgyeongwon Botanical Garden, was established for the purpose of promoting ‘taste’ in 1909 during the Japanese colonial period. This paper examines the concept of ‘taste’—‘shumi’ and ‘chwimi’—in order to show how the Changgyeongwon Botanical Garden played a role as a colonial botanical garden in Korea during the early twentieth century. At the end of the Meiji period, the concept of ‘shumi’ to acquire cultural improvement justified the Japanese authorities’ proposal to establish the botanical garden for the purpose of promoting ‘shumi’ and developing Japanese taste in Korea. In early twentieth-century Korea, the concept of ‘chwimi’ to develop knowledge, refinement and virtues, and the discussion on the roles of botanical gardens in improving ‘chwimi’, provided the foundation for the Changgyeongwon Botanical Garden to be acknowledged as a symbol of good taste or popular culture despite its Japanese colonial origin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we aim to make explicit the features of the Japanese garden as they appear from an analysis of the basic structure of three main types of garden: "kaiyūshiki," roji and "kanshōshiki". We show that their structure is based on the "movement space" perception - a concept introduced by Mitsuo Ino ue as the Japanese specific perception of architectural space. After checking the structure of the "kaiyūshiki" garden, we have seen that it is a representative example of this Japanese space perception. Analysis of the structure of roji and "ka nshōshiki" garden revealed that they are also expressions of "movement space", which lends them a fundamental Japanese character, common with "kaiyūshiki" gardens, but each has its own specificities that determine creating from the same base of a different structure. For each type analyzed, we indicated some practical hints for garden appreciation taking into consideration the features observed herein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Though there has been some interest in the semiotics of Japanese gardens (Casalis 1983; van Tonder and Lyons 2005) as pure visual articulations of landscape elements, attention to what Schafer (1977) and Truax (2001) identify as a garden's soundscape has been lacking. This paper investigates the gardening technique of shakkei (borrowed scenery) in the Tokyo garden Kyu Furukawa Teien. Utilizing the terminology of Schafer and Truax, I construct a Greimas square to interrogate the semiotic function of the shakkei in light of traditional Japanese uses of Chinese geomancy, and to further investigate the garden's synthesis of landscape and soundscape elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper canvasses explanations for the nearly ten-fold discrepancy between the number of Japanese-style gardens constructed outside Japan and Chinese-style gardens constructed outside China since the 1860s. The East Asian countries' histories of engagement with the West and the purposes for which publicly accessible gardens were built occupy much of the discussion. Various explanations are suggested including access to information about the gardens, Japan's relative economic strength, that of the United States, Canadian attempts after the Second World War to make amends for internments, and the consequences for designers of Chinese-style gardens of Japanese-style gardens having got there first. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the changing perspectives of Japanese gardens from foreigners, starting with their first encounters with Japanese gardens in the 16th century to the present day. It covers the wave of interest in Japanese gardens during the Japonisme movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which led to the construction of Japanese-style gardens around the world.

Botanic and public gardens attract a significant number of people throughout the world who visit these spaces for a wide variety of reasons. Notwithstanding, the study of visitor experiences in such spaces is a much under-researched foci in the fields of museum education and visitor studies. This exploratory study examined the reflective experiences of expatriates, who were foreign exchange students from Japan living in Canada, after a visit to a culturally familiar public space of a traditional Japanese garden. The study reveals the considerable power of such spaces and experiences in terms of these visitors' reported mental restoration, self-reflection of their own identities, and identification of attributes of their own journeys as foreigners living abroad. These outcomes speak to the capacities of such spaces to be both emotionally transformative and learning experiences of the self for people groups who are uniquely contextually situated in time, place, and life-cycle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article informs about Oregon State Penitentiary, a healing garden environment, with its ten armed guard towers and high metal bars and fences, with reference to the description of Toshio Takanobu, serving a twenty-four-year sentence. Topics include masks to adapt to the environment gentle healing garden of the Asian Pacific Family Club living; and create opportunities to educate and celebrate Asian and Pacific Islander heritages and cultural programs.

The article reports that Cranbrook Japanese Garden is the oldest surviving Japanese-style gardens in North America, and pond-style strolling garden, is a well-loved if lesser-known part of the original country estate of Cranbrook's founders, newspaper publishers George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth. It mentions that the Booths began to transform their estate into an eclectic group of educational and cultural institutions, Cranbrook Educational Community.

The article explores how a Japanese style garden on campus can be an ideal lab for experimenting with contemplative techniques through the activities of fostering, which in turn fosters individual students, the university culture, and hopefully society upon graduation. Topics include students may also cultivate essential skills not ordinarily taught in modern academics; and coordinate learning in the humanities, arts, and sciences with a drive towards human flourishing.

The article explores how an all-season university building associated with campus garden through experience of author with his colleagues at the College of the Holy Cross, a Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester. Topics include covering Japan's cultural background, history, and garden traditions with day-long workshops on tea ceremony; and president authorized and funded garden designer Marc Keane to work with us to determine a site central elements.

The article discusses the features of a Japanese tea garden called "roji," which is based on Chinese culture. Topics discussed include the relationship between Chinese culture and tea culture and gardens in medieval Japan; the rise of Zen Buddhism in China and its impact on Japanese tea culture; and the aesthetic principles of the Japanese tea ceremony that developed on the basis of "wabi" principles.

This article presents compositionwork as a method based on dialogical self theory, according to which the self is understood as a multiplicity of I-positions (different sides of the self) in the landscape of the mind. The person making the composition uses language and stones to represent relevant I-positions of her- or himself self, thus externalizing these and creating a personal landscape of mind. As a result a meta-position is taken to this landscape, which facilitates its overview and understanding and may stimulate its further development. The method relates to the two basic dimensions of the self: verbal/reflexive and nonverbal/sensory, the integration of which forms an optimal condition for the development of the self. The idea of representing I-positions by using stones is inspired by Japanese rock gardens, which often represent the organization or development of the self. By their abstract and sensory quality, stones help to evoke and symbolize nonverbal aspects of the I-positions. First, we present the theoretical concepts relevant for compositionwork, and then we elaborate on the meaning of Japanese gardens as a representation of the mind and the use of stones as symbols. Finally, we present the method itself and examples of its application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the influence of the Chinese painter Guo Xi's landscape paintings on early modern Japanese garden design. An overview of the role that space played within Guo Xi's paintings is provided. The distances portrayed within the Chinese landscape paintings, including what are referred to as high distance, deep distance and level distance, are discussed. An overview of the Chinese influence on Japanese gardens, including in the 16th century rock garden at Daisen-in, Japan, is also provided.

The article discusses the Japanese Village and Deer Park in Buena Park, California, established by entrepreneur Allen Parkinson as a theme park and operated from 1967 to 1974. Some of the featured entertainments at the park included Karate performances, acrobatics performed by Hokkaido bears, and music performed on kotos. The article also discusses some of Parkinson's other business enterprises, the impact of the Park on both local residents and Japanese Americans living in Southern California, and public reaction to the Park's closing in 1974.

The article informs about Lili`uokalani Gardens, a collection of four parks sits at one end of the crescent bay fronting Hilo Hawaii, and landscaped in the Japanese style with no surrounding wall or fence. Topics include staff hours were spent cleaning an extensive cycad patch and hauling the green waste to the compost area at the Hilo dump; and news of the Covid-19 pandemic spread and precautions were announced, soap dispensers were reinstalled by the County in the restrooms.

The article explores how horticulturists at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park are considered essential employees and continued maintaining the gardens during the "Stay at Home" order. Topics include good fortune to spend days in the peace and tranquility of the garden in isolation; and climb to the upper portions of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs towards self-actualization.

Looks at the similarities and differences in aesthetics between the French Gothic cathedral Chartres and Japanese Zen Buddhist rock and stone garden Ryoan-ji. Form and space in religious feeling and perception; Architectural styles and images of the spirit; Ability to appreciate the aesthetics of a culture different from one's own.