Ryōan-ji

Ryoan -ji (Japanese龙 安 寺, dt "Temple of the Dragon come to rest " ) was established in 1499 is a Zen temple in the northwest of the Japanese city of Kyoto in the city district Ukyo.

It was built in 1450 by Hosokawa Katsumoto, a high government official of the Muromachi period, on a plot that was originally the Fujiwara family served as a country residence. Since 1994 it belongs along with other sites on the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities ). The temple belongs to the largest school of the Rinzai Zen with the Mother Temple Myoshin -ji.

The main attraction of the temple is located here and the most famous Zen gardens of Japan, the Hojo Teien in Kare -san- sui - style from the mid-15th century. The garden consists of an area (30 by 10 meters ) from a just fine gravel with 15 seemingly randomly placed stones in 5 mossy groups. For no perspective all 15 stones are visible. The southern and western side of the garden is bordered by a reddish brick wall, above which is a look at the trees and shrubs of the garden walk. On the northern side of the temple building is the seat terrace from which one can overlook the rock garden. The surrounding wall has been built with oil-soaked mortar. Over the centuries, the oil from the stone has leaked and has thus left the characteristic pattern on the stone.

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