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Dry Landscape Garden seen from Yugen
Yugen is one of the fundamental values of beauty in Japanese art.
Yugen is a beauty that can be perceived by unifying different complex phenomena into one.
From this definition of Yugen, Yugen body cannot be expressed with only one.
By anticipating the complexity of these multiple Yugen bodies and unifying them, Yugen beauty is created.
For example, in the Dry Landscape garden at Ryuan-ji Temple, the white sand represents the seascape, and the 15 stones represent islands in the sea, creating a unified landscape.
The Dry Landscape Garden of Ryoan-ji Temple also expresses Yugen beauty through the unification of this complexity.
From 1200 years to 1500 years, the rise of Yugen beauty brought style change of the dry landscape garden.
The dry landscape garden changed part of the pond garden into an independent garden expressing nature.