What most people know today as a Japanese “zen garden” actually predates the arrival of Zen Buddhism in Japan. In a place where there was no water or stream, one could build a stone garden and use sand to fill the void.
Known as a Japanese rock garden, these unique spaces drew their inspiration from an even older Chinese garden style that used arrangements of rocks to symbolize the mountain-island home of the Eight Immortals in Chinese mythology, Mount Penglai.
