Japanese gardening is an art fetched beyond the arrangements of vegetation, water and stone but is full of symbols:

Koko - the veneration of timeless age;

Shizen - the avoidance of the artificial;

Yugen, or darkness - imply the mysterious or subtle;

Miegakure - the avoidance of full expression

There are some specific elements:

• The wall (Heï) with an intermediary bamboo fencing (Takégaki) that stands for fragility and simplicity.
  
  
• The main gate (Shô-mon)
  
  
• The stone lanterns (Tôrô) - each having special different characteristics;
  
  
• The lake (Iké) with large swishing gold fish.
  
  
• The stone fountain (Fusen-Ishi)
  
  
• The covered terrace (Kyukeïjo)...
  

There are olive trees, cherry trees, conifers, azaleas, rhododendrons and camellias, a varried, rich vegetation of Mediterranean, South American, Australia, African and Asian origin, pruned according to the Japanese tradition.

The perception of nature is different in the Japanese culture from that of the European one. Instead of viewing nature only as something to be subjugated and transformed according to men-made ideal of beauty, Japanese developed a close connection to nature, considering it sacred, an ally in putting food on the table and an ideal of beauty in itself. That is why the Japanese gardens are the synthesis of nature in miniature instead of correction of nature as with European gardens.