Japanese Garden as a Physical Symbol of Japanese Culture

محورهای موضوعی : Urban Design

Farah Habib ¹ , Sara Nahibi ² , Hamid Majedi ³

1 - Associate professor, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assistant professor, Department of Urbanism, Pardis Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Associat professor, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

تاریخ دریافت : 1390/04/28 تاریخ پذیرش : 1391/09/11 تاریخ انتشار : 1392/09/10

کلید واژه: Culture, Cultural symbol, Japanese garden, Gardening,

چکیده مقاله :

A’ view of nature within the framework of garden and in relation with human needs and drives that satisfy theneed to be rooted has caused the representation of nature in garden to be regarded as cultural heritage. Garden and garden designingare suitable cases for us to study cultural characteristics and traits. Thus, human beings have searched their eternal interest in anideal and unattainable world in garden building and garden totally reflects each culture. Art and knowledge are both represented ingarden in which engineering creativity reaches its summit. Japanese garden is one of the oldest patterns in gardening in the world.It demonstrates Japanese ideology, ontology, cultural views and rites. Relativity and multi religions represent its cultural difference.Changeability and cultural ease along with preserving basic core and nature of Japanese culture are the basis of Japanese culture.Japanese garden is one of the most obvious emblems and representatives of Japanese culture. The aim of this paper is to make acontent analysis that will primarily study the cultural characteristics and will then focus and conclude the results of Japanesegarden designing as a cultural physical symbol.