Zen Garden Design Principles
Garden style is the art and method of developing and producing strategies for style and design and planting of gardens and landscapes.
Zen garden design principles. There are four core principles of a japanese design aesthetic for the zen garden. Aesthetic principles of zen gardens. Zen gardens emphasize the principles of naturalness shizen simplicity kanso and austerity koko.
Your zen garden should promote most or all of these concepts. Later they began using the gardens to teach zen principles and concepts. Austerity koko simplicity kanso naturalness shinzen asymmetry fukinsei mystery or subtlety yugen magical or unconventional datsuzoku and stillness seijaku.
In the sixth century zen buddhist monks created the first zen gardens to aid in meditation.