"Lawlessness" perfection

You know that the Japanese enjoy their home gardens, not outside, but inside the house. Therefore, when planning the garden compositional necessarily take into account the architecture of the house, which, in turn, required "observation cells" (open veranda, a special platform). Sometimes the configuration of the windows is a kind of frame to garden landscapes. Sometimes, due to limitations in the free space can not arrange a full garden, but a sense of harmony with nature, nurtured for centuries, helping the Japanese to find out, and now the window is broken miniature rock garden, or growing one single tree bonsai. In Japan, during excavation often find strange flat ground, coated in a circle large stones. Archaeologists have dated the age of about V century. Such sites are found in Hokkaido, in Akita, in many other places and is very reminiscent of the famous Japanese rock gardens. Although historians believe that these sites were the ancient inhabitants of the Japanese islands is not an ornament, but a place of mental concentration and prayers forces of nature. And the art itself parks came to Japan from China in VII-IX centuries, along with Buddhism, style of architecture and construction equipment. However, the peculiarity of Japanese culture is that all of their "foreign" purchase it so hard to mutate and adapt for themselves, that very quickly turns the former borrow in its own unique tradition. Do not avoid a similar fate, and brought from China the doctrine of Buddhism, architecture and garden art. The philosophy of Chinese garden garden idea meant primarily aesthetic aspect and was closely associated with painting. Chinese gardens, you can say, and emerged as a direct continuation of Tushev painting - a kind of "painting in reality," which in many ways is a replica of nature in miniature. The composition of Chinese garden boulders played the role of rocks, lakes depicted the sea, and streams - the rivers. In addition, the Chinese sought to create in a garden just a few images, conditionally separating a miniature landscape from another decorative walls, pavilions, bridges. The Japanese pushed the idea of ??the garden itself far beyond the Chinese and also developed a set of its own, unique types of gardens, which include rock gardens, tea, miniature gardens in front of houses and many others. It is easy to verify in practice - the beauty of Chinese gardens is undeniable, but odnoharakterna: I saw a garden, and more are already interested. In Japan, everyone, let even the most modest garden has a face, each of these landscape - the whole world, and unsurprisingly, wants to travel on it again and again. In the XII century, with the arrival in Japan (again from China) and architectural ideas of Zen Buddhism, particularly the development were stony gardens. For the first time he saw a "garden", the uninitiated viewer asked in surprise: where is, in fact, himself a garden? Indeed, in our view the garden is inextricably linked with the plants, and Japanese rock gardens are often nothing but boulders, pebbles and sand. And are these gardens, as it turned out, not for walking, but to contemplate them. Sitting quietly with his legs hanging from the wooden porch of the temple (as a rule, these gardens were organized in churches), and admire the powerful gray boulders, laid out the waves and spirals of sand and shingle. And in the fall of this strange and peaceful state (whether in the hypnotic, or a meditative), because it is a meditation and arranged in their time Zen monks such gardens. That is remembered here for some reason, one ancient, paved circle of boulders, arranged not for decoration, but to focus thought, and the Japanese idea of ??the garden returned to its roots. Stone Japanese gardens are usually very small. Their area is estimated not hectares, and square meters: the biggest of them - no more basketball court, and "kids" Garden in Japan at the same time expresses the idea of ??beauty and possibility of concentration for prayer and meditation and a plaid cover possible. However, this miniature rock gardens are very deceptive. The day actually visit two, well, a maximum of three kindergarten, and you have already filled impressions: after looking at them, against the will "fly away to nowhere." In this case, to "return to earth" leaves sometimes an hour, maybe more. Time seemed to stop, stretch, freezes ... But Kyoto only a stone garden dozens, while others - even hundreds or thousands! Tourists usually show the famous stone garden of the monastery Reandzi and refined, mossy garden Ginkakudzi. Do not say anything bad about them, but today it's not about them, but about other, lesser-known but no less amazing. Old and relatively new, classic and original - the gardens of Buddhist temples Daytokudzi and Tofu-Kudzu, the Shinto shrine, Matsuo Taisha Shrine. We show them exactly, just because the famous Reandzi and Ginkakudzi known throughout the world on them constantly roam the crowds of tourists, getting in each other not to feel that something "such things", and even how to look at all. But in less "hyped" churches can safely enjoy the contemplation alone, sit in silence and even listen to fall "concerts" grasshoppers. Music in stone And it's true that in the stone gardens - some boulders just let the sand. More precisely, these gardens are, but are rare. In most cases, stone gardens, yet there are plants - the green-red moss, thin flexible cane leaves, blue bells, adjusted dark twists tree branches. Special feeling attached to a fence, bound from bamboo or woven bundles of twigs. The boundaries of sand and pebbles howling-zhenny bleach to coal and from that cracked in the shape of chrysanthemum with round muzzle, as well as winding, stuck on the edge of the tile. All this is not reduced and therefore a bit awkward Chinese copy of nature, and creative processing and originality. Stones in a Japanese garden - is necessarily natural boulders, without treatment. Low bridges are made of long flat boulders, cross streams dry sand: it bends and waves of sand is just to convey water. And if someone they are associated with heaven, he will also have rights. From the temple monks can often hear the explanation, something like that here this boulder - leaning out of the water dragon's head, this - a toad, and that - an island in the sea ... Perhaps in order to understand what he saw, someone from the visitors just need to know it all, and someone - no need to do. Perhaps it is the same as that enjoy good music: in the same tone someone will hear and imagine a storm in the woods, someone - a storm, and someone nothing will be as easy without the Lipschitz thoughts and images will go up and fall into abstract waves of pleasure. Stone gardens is akin to music: the melody of dry congealed narrow boulders and "water" crimps sand, stains, moss, single focus of herbs, flowers, trees. Endless fantasies, multiplied by graphically attitude. The transition from dazzling white to anthracite-black through many shades of gray. Mute the sound of harmony is so perfect that it seems a pathway to other worlds ... In Japan there is also a terrific tradition highlight the stone gardens in the evenings. Candle lanterns cast in stone on the sand, careful reflections, and from that between sand waves and grooves lie deep shadows. "Heads" stones of gold, and all the gray-cold day in the garden one moment becomes warm and shimmering. Black and white, night and day, light and darkness, cold and heat, water and fire, air, trees, earth and sky - all this can be found at the same time, probably only in the Japanese stone garden.