Week 1

Question 1

In which of the following five prefectures is the Japanese garden in this picture located?
[lots of ponds]

Answer 1

Okayama Prefecture

Question 2

Which style does 金閣寺 belong to?

Answer 2

Chisenshuyu-shiki Garden

Question 3

Describe Nobedan

Answer 3

Stones laid as a path

Question 4

Which Japanese garden is in the “Karesansui” style?

Answer 4

Tofuku-ji Hojo-teien

Question 5

Which building is built with “Shinden-zukuri” style?

Answer 5

Byodo-in Temple Ho-o-do

Question 6

Which is Daimyo Garden?

Answer 6

One with unique lantern thing

Question 7

What is the entrance of a Japanese tea room “Chashitsu” called?

Answer 7

nijiriguchi

Question 8

Which garden use “Shakkei”?

Answer 8

Tenryū-ji Sōgenchi

Question 9

Which of the following six Japanese gardens is not a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

Answer 9

Tenryū-ji Sōgenchi

Question 10

Who was famous for creating Japanese gardens in the first half of the 14th century using sand, gravel, and stones?

Answer 10

MUSŌ Kokushi

Question 11

Where is the baguette like stone from?

Answer 11

Daitoku-ji
Daisen-in Garden

Question 12

In which of the following five prefectures is the Japanese garden in this picture located?
[dull sky with lots of stones]

Answer 12

Kyoto Prefecture

Question 13

Which gardens is this photograph from?
[kamejima, turujima]

Answer 13

Daigo-ji, Sanbō-in Garden

Question 14

Which of the following styles of garden is shown in this photograph?
[Chozu or temizu on top of stone]

Answer 14

Roji

Question 15

Which of the following categories do the element(s) comprising the Japanese gardens in this photograph belong to?
[picture of stone bridge]

Answer 15

Staffage

Question 16

How many stones can be found in this garden?
[the sand one]

Answer 16

15

Question 17

Which of the following categories do the element(s) comprising the Japanese gardens in this photograph belong to?
[kamejima, turujima]

Answer 17

Stones and rocks

Question 18

In which of the following five prefectures is the Japanese garden in this picture located?
[There’s a big tree blocking most of the view]

Answer 18

Shimane Prefecture

Question 19

Which of the following categories do the element(s) comprising the Japanese gardens in this photograph belong to?
[picture of koi in pond]

Answer 19

Staffage

Question 20

In which Japanese gardens can you see the garden object in this photograph?
[Grey-ish white sand mountain]

Answer 20

Ginkaku-ji Garden

Question 21

Which of the following styles of garden is shown in this photograph?
[Red temple with pond right next to it]

Answer 21

Jōdo-shiki Garden

Question 22

Which garden is this photograph from?
[紅葉が綺麗+pond]

Answer 22

Tenryū-ji Sōgenchi

Question 23

In which prefecture is the Japanese garden in this picture located?
[image taken from balcony]

Answer 23

Ibaraki Prefecture

Question 24

Which of the following categories do the element(s) comprising the Japanese gardens in this photograph belong to?
[bamboo fence]

Answer 24

Staffage

Question 25

Which of the following categories do the element(s) comprising the Japanese gardens in this photograph belong to? [tome-ishi]

Answer 25

Staffage

Question 26

What are the four major elements of Japanese gardens?

Answer 26

Water, Stones and Rocks, Plants, and Staffage

Question 27

What are the elements of water?

Answer 27

たき、やりみず、 ちせん、きょくすい

Question 27

What are the elements of stones and rocks?

Answer 27

Ishigumi, Iwajima, Suhama, Tsukiyama

Question 27

What are the elements of plants?

Answer 27

Karikomi, Pine tree, seasonal flowers,

Question 27

What are the elements of staffage?

Answer 27

Tobiishi, bridge, fish, sekimoriishi

Question 27

Where is Byodo-in Garden located?

Answer 27

Uji, Kyoto Prefecture

Question 28

Who was Muso Kokushi?

Answer 28

A well-known priest who designed many gardens using sand, gravel and stones during the first half of the 14 century.

Question 29

What is Shakkei

Answer 29

A design method where a landscape or cultural feature outside the garden is co-opted as “borrowed scenery.”

Question 30

What is Shukkei

Answer 30

The miniaturization of famous sights and natural features in the stroll garden

Question 30

What is the name of the white sand ocean in Ginkaku-ji garden?

Answer 30

Ginsyadan

Question 31

What is the conical sand mountain in Ginkaku-ji garden?

Answer 31

Kogetsudai

Question 32

Where is Murin-an (Meiji Period)?

Answer 32

Sakyo-ku, Kyoto

Question 33

What is Tsukiyama?

Answer 33

Man-made hill

Question 33

What does Kinkaku-ji and the gardens represent?

Answer 33

極楽浄土

Question 34

Who constructed Heian-Jingu, Higashi-shinen, Naka-shinen (Meiji period)?

Answer 34

Ogawa Jihei

Question 35

What is the main pattern used in Tofuku-ji garden (Showa Period)?

Answer 35

Ichimatsu-moyo

Question 35

In the southern garden of Tofuku-ji, what does the sharp gigantic boulder represent?

Answer 35

Shinsen Island

Question 36

What are the "Great Gardens of Japan"?

Answer 36

1. Kanazawa Kenroku-en 2. Okayama Koraku-en 3. Mito Kairaku-en

Question 37

Who is Sen-no-rikyu?

Answer 37

Important figure in Chanoyu. Had Oda Nobunaga Toyotomi Hideyoshi as students.

Question 38

What does wabi mean?

Answer 38

Beauty of simplicity, rusticity, and understatement to convey a feeling of harmony.

Question 39

What does sabi mean?

Answer 39

Concept that relies on the beauty of imperfection due to age.

Question 40

How to enter chashitsu?

Answer 40

- Guests must pass through "kuguri" - Wash their hands at "tsukubai" - Enter room through "nijiruguchi"

Question 41

What are the components of Chashitsu?

Answer 41

- Tatami - Toko - Ro

Question 42

What is sukiya-zukuri?

Answer 42

Tea rooms being constructed into ordinary residences. Developed in the Azuchi-Momoyama and Tokugawa periods.

Question 43

What is Tokujin-do? (Koishikawa Korakuen)

Answer 43

Temple with wooden statue of [Hakui Shukusei]. [Tokugawa Mitsukuni] was impressed after reading "Hakui Retsu-den" from "Shiki"

Question 44

What is Engetsu-kyo? (Koishikawa Korakuen)

Answer 44

The reflection of the bridge in the pond produces a full circle wit the appearance of a full moon.

Question 45

What is Naitei? (Koishikawa Korakuen)

Answer 45

Area of the garden where the Mito Clan maintained a "shoin"-style guesthouse.

Question 46

What is Horai ishigumi?

Answer 46

Central mountain of the Daoism universe. represented in Japanese gardens with vertical faced rocks.

Question 47

What is Shumisen Ishigumi?

Answer 47

Central mountain of the Buddhist universe. Often represented in Japanese gardens with vertical faced rocks. Also called Sumeru in Sanskrit.

Question 48

What is Shinden-Zukuri?

Answer 48

Literally “sleeping room,” Main room in aristocratic buildings of the Heian period (794–1185) and consisting of a shinden, or chief central building, to which subsidiary structures were connected by corridors.