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karesansui en · NOUN

Etymology

From Japanese 枯山水.

Meanings

1. (attributive, often) A Japanese rock garden or Zen garden.
   • Suden commissioned master garden-designer Kobori Enshu to build the karesansui garden south of the hojo. 2002, Alison Main, Newell Platten, The Lure of the Japanese Garden, page 101:
   • To some observers a karesansui is just twigs, rocks and grit. 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 193:
   • Wall of offices, windows, the fabulous design of the Japanese architects—and the surrounding gardens of dwarf evergreens, rocks, the karesansui landscape, sand imitating a dried-up stream winding past roots, among simple, irregular flat stones…. 1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 27:

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