Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. ArtistArt Sandi Platinum Member CollectionWaterfalls
Description Beauty Of Nature Page By Page, Portland Japanese Garden PhotographyJapanese gardens (, nihon teien) are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest a natural landscape, and to express the fragility of existence as well as time's unstoppable advance.[1] Ancient Japanese art inspired past garden designers.[1] Water is an important feature of many gardens, as are rocks and often gravel. Despite there being many attractive Japanese flowering plants, herbacious flowers generally play much less of a role in Japanese gardens than in the West, though seasonally flowering shrubs and trees are important, all the more dramatic because of the contrast with the usual predominant green. Evergreen plants are 'the bones of the garden' in Japan.[2] Though a natural-seeming appearance is the aim, Japanese gardeners often shape their plants, including trees, with great rigour.The Portland Japanese Garden is located in Washington Park in Portland, Oregon overlooking the city and providing a tranquil, urban oasis for locals and travelers alike. Designed in 1963, it encompasses 12 acres with eight separate garden styles, and includes an authentic Japanese Tea House, meandering streams, intimate walkways, and a spectacular view of Mt. Hood. This is a place to let go of worldly thoughts and concerns and see oneself as a small but integral part of the universe.Wiki