karesansui
karesansui noun: a Japanese rock garden or Zen garden.
Noun
karesansui (plural karesansui)
- A Japanese rock garden or Zen garden.
- Wall of offices, windows, the fabulous design of the Japanese architects—and the surrounding gardens of dwarf evergreens, rocks, the karesansui landscape, sand imitating a dried-up stream winding past roots, among simple, irregular flat stones….1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 27
- Suden commissioned master garden-designer Kobori Enshu to build the karesansui garden south of the hojo.2002, Alison Main, Newell Platten, The Lure of the Japanese Garden, page 101
Forms of karesansui
| plural | karesansui |
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Origin of karesansui
From Japanese 枯山水.
Questions about karesansui
- What does karesansui mean?
- Karesansui means a Japanese rock garden or Zen garden.
- What part of speech is karesansui?
- Karesansui is a noun.
- What is the plural of karesansui?
- The plural of karesansui is karesansui.
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