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context: gardens > dry gardens

Daisen-in

The Daisen-in hall is surrounded by dry gardens on three sides. This very famous minimal design, with just two cones of gravel, was probably by Soami, and was completed around 1513.

backwards: Joei-ji

forwards: Ginkaku-ji

sideways: modernism & postmodernism