The Okayama Friendship Garden in Pune, India, also known as the Pu La Deshpande Garden, is a 10-acre Japanese garden built in the style of the 300-year-old Kōraku-en Garden in Okayama, Japan. The garden incorporates natural elements like a flowing water canal and changing landscapes along the paths. It also includes man-made features typical of Japanese gardens like stone lanterns, bridges, and ponds containing colorful koi fish. The garden aims to provide a peaceful environment for meditation, following Japanese philosophies of spirituality in garden design.
The Okayama Friendship Garden in Pune, India, also known as the Pu La Deshpande Garden, is a 10-acre Japanese garden built in the style of the 300-year-old Kōraku-en Garden in Okayama, Japan. The garden incorporates natural elements like a flowing water canal and changing landscapes along the paths. It also includes man-made features typical of Japanese gardens like stone lanterns, bridges, and ponds containing colorful koi fish. The garden aims to provide a peaceful environment for meditation, following Japanese philosophies of spirituality in garden design.
The Okayama Friendship Garden in Pune, India, also known as the Pu La Deshpande Garden, is a 10-acre Japanese garden built in the style of the 300-year-old Kōraku-en Garden in Okayama, Japan. The garden incorporates natural elements like a flowing water canal and changing landscapes along the paths. It also includes man-made features typical of Japanese gardens like stone lanterns, bridges, and ponds containing colorful koi fish. The garden aims to provide a peaceful environment for meditation, following Japanese philosophies of spirituality in garden design.
The Okayama Friendship Garden in Pune, India, also known as the Pu La Deshpande Garden, is a 10-acre Japanese garden built in the style of the 300-year-old Kōraku-en Garden in Okayama, Japan. The garden incorporates natural elements like a flowing water canal and changing landscapes along the paths. It also includes man-made features typical of Japanese gardens like stone lanterns, bridges, and ponds containing colorful koi fish. The garden aims to provide a peaceful environment for meditation, following Japanese philosophies of spirituality in garden design.
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The key takeaways are that the Okayama Friendship Garden in Pune, India was built in the style of the 300-year-old Kōraku-en Garden in Okayama, Japan. It contains a flowing canal, colorful fish, and changes in landscape as you walk through it. It was named after the Marathi writer Pu La Deshpande.
The Okayama Friendship Garden was designed in the Japanese style, inspired by the Kōraku-en Garden in Okayama, Japan. It contains a natural flowing canal that spreads water across the 10 acre garden. As you walk through changing landscapes, you can see colorful fish from a small central bridge.
Some design principles of Japanese gardens include incorporating natural and artificial elements to fuse nature and architecture. The line between the garden and surrounding landscape is blurred. Balance and proportion of spaces (sumi) and defining empty spaces (ma) are also important design principles.
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• NAME :- Okayama friendship garden. • Also known as “Pu Le Deshpande Garden”. • Style :- Japanese style. • Location :- Sinhagad road, dattaji nagar, Pune, Mahrashtra, India. • Area :- 10 acres. • The garden was built in inspiration of 300-year-old Okayama's Kōraku-en Garden, so it is also called as Pune-Okayama Friendship Garden. • The garden contains natural flow of water from canal which is been spread across the garden. • The garden is well maintained. • The style is devised in such a way that people can take a walk through a garden enjoying the landscape, which changes along the garden paths. • The landscape keep changing during walking. • The garden is having colorful fishes. you can see these fishes from a small bridge in the center of garden. • This Japanese garden has been named after Pu La Deshpande, a well known Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. • The art of gardening is believed to be an important part of Japanese culture for many centuries. • The garden design in Japan is strongly connected to the philosophy and religion of the country. • Shinto, Buddhism and Taoism were used in the creation of different garden styles in order to bring a spiritual sense to the gardens and make them places where people could spend their time in a peaceful way and meditate. • The line between garden and its surrounding landscape is not distinct. • Gardens incorporate natural and artificial elements and thus, fuse the elements of nature and architecture. • In the Japanese garden, the viewer should consider nature as a picture frame into which the garden, or the man- made work of art, is inserted. • Nature is the ideal that you must strive for. You can idealize it, even symbolize it, but you must never create something that nature itself cannot.
• Balance, or sumi. The proportions and spaces are an
essential Design principle
• The “emptiness” of portions of the garden. This space, or
ma, defines the elements around it, and is also defined by the elements surrounding it. It is the true spirit of yin and yang. Without nothing, you cannot have something. It is a central tenet of Japanese gardening. • Ponds, waterfalls, wells, bridges (real or symbolic) • Stepping stones, Garden paths • Stone water basins, stone lanterns • Garden plants and trees • Fences and walls • Stones INSERT IMAGE •It represents the sea, lake, pond or river in nature. •Non geometrical in appearance; in order to preserve the natural shapes, man- made ponds are asymmetrical. •The bank of the pond is usually bordered by stones •A fountain is sometimes found at the bottom of a hill or hillside or secluded forest. •Wells are sometimes found in a Japanese garden. • Stone lanterns are placed besides prominent water basins whose luminance underscored the unfinished beauty of the tea aesthetic.
INSERT IMAGE • Japanese garden is predominately green with its use of evergreen trees.
• When flowering trees found in Japanese garden are
camelias, specifically the tsubaki and sazanka. SEATING AREA PRESENTED BY :-