Contrastive Study between Chinese and Japanese Gardens

Taking Zhanyuan Garden in Nanjing and Abbot’s Garden of Long’an Temple in Kyoto as Examples

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220504.271How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese and Japanese Gardens; Zhanyuan Garden; Abbot’s Garden of Longan Temple; Landscape Art; Zen Thought

Abstract

Chinese gardens have developed distinctive features through thousands of years. Japanese gardens, under the influence of Chinese gardens, have developed unique Japanese characteristics of dry landscape gardens, thus, contributing to some differences and similarities while compared with Chinese gardens. The fact that Zhanyuan Garden in Nanjing and Abbot’s Garden of Long’an Temple in Kyoto were built in the same era makes it meaningful to compare the two gardens. This article focuses on the differences between the two gardens through investigating the knowledge of Chinese and Japanese garden schools, the historical development of Chinese gardens, and the integration and transformation of Japanese gardens after being influenced by Chinese culture. After a contrastive study of the characteristics of the two in three main aspects: ideological and philosophical systems, aesthetic perspectives, and landscapes techniques, this article analyzes the reasons for the differences between the two countries’ gardens in two aspects: social and environmental factors, cultural and traditional factors. The contrastive study of garden culture is conducive to understanding the cultural differences between China and Japan, promoting cultural exchanges, and making suggestions for the inheritance and innovation of Chinese gardens.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yumeng Han
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Contrastive Study between Chinese and Japanese Gardens
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1495
EP  - 1500
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.271
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.271
ID  - Han2022
ER  -