The silence of the rock and gravel garden of Ryoanji Temple, Kyoto.  Kyoto’s most famous garden is one of the simplest yet paradoxically one of the most mysterious gardens in the world. Its history is unclear, but the latest word is that it was probably created on top of another garden that was in the same place after a fire in 1797. So much for the story that this is a masterpiece of Soami, a painter and gardener who died in 1525. View high resolution

The silence of the rock and gravel garden of Ryoanji Temple, Kyoto. 

Kyoto’s most famous garden is one of the simplest yet paradoxically one of the most mysterious gardens in the world. Its history is unclear, but the latest word is that it was probably created on top of another garden that was in the same place after a fire in 1797. So much for the story that this is a masterpiece of Soami, a painter and gardener who died in 1525.

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