Japanese Garden

Three in one! There are actually three separate Japanese gardens here.	Jardin botanique de Montréal (Gilles Murray)
	STROLL GARDEN ? kaiyushiki teien While it is inspired by nature, a stroll garden does not strive to reproduce it. Rather, it depicts nature in an idealized fashion. Ken Nakajima incorporated traditional elements - cascades, stone lanterns and a zigzag footbridge - to create a contemporary vision of a stroll garden.

DRY LANDSCAPE GARDEN - kare sansui
Although its sobriety invites introspection, this type of garden is not intended for meditation, as such. Rather, one seeks illumination as one ceaselessly repeats the same gestures, raking a pattern in the gravel or picking up the leaves constantly falling on the stony surface.

Jardin botanique de Montréal (Archives) - call number:MT0000615

Jardin botanique de Montr?al (Michel Tremblay)

TEA GARDEN - roji or chaniwa
This garden does not contain a collection of tea plants, but instead is a passage leading to a teahouse. As visitors move through it, they shed their worldly cares so that they can concentrate fully on the tea ceremony experience.

Jardin botanique de Montréal (Archives) - call number:GIM003633

Jardin botanique de Montréal (Gilles Murray)

Previous stop of the historical path:
First Nations Garden

Next stop of the historical path:
Shade Garden

Construction of the Botanical Garden virtual exhibit [Jardin botanique de Montréal]