Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan. Located in Kyoto's northern outskirts, the temple was ...

Former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, right, explains his “fusuma-e” sliding door paintings he donated this past spring to Ryoanji in Kyoto’s Ukyo Ward. Stones from the temple’s famed ...

At Ryoanji temple, with its famous rock garden, the west garden is now also open to the public. The “kaiyushiki teien” strolling garden was reconstructed from one developed in the Muromachi ...

The early sixteenthcentury Japanese garden in the Zen temple of Ryoanji in Kyoto is considered a masterpiece of the karesansui or dry landscape style In this film the viewer is invited to ...