Japanese Gardens - Conclusion

Japanese garden design - Everything you need to know about Japanese Gardens

In conclusion therefore it would seem that, as with most gardens, the basic design of Japanese gardens was based on practical considerations, but that the gardens have changed and evolved with time. Even with royal palaces, budgets were not unlimited and locally sourced materials would always have been used where possible.

Large quantities of material were sometimes moved to form the landscape but in the main the skill of any designer lies in exploiting features which are already present without unnecessary expense. Much of the work of Repton and Brown in England was based upon developing the capabilities of the site. Such an attitude is always present in people who appreciate the form of the land.

Everything has a cost benefit and no-one, particularly in the age before machines, would have expended energy where there was no real need to do so. As in our modern society, security might have been the only exception to that rule.

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