Gardens in Japan – when refinement is lost in favor of bad taste…
For several years, from few isolated cases, I have to deplore a situation in Japan that spreads now like wildfi...
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Our health and inner realization through our garden - Niwatherapy©/Traditions and culture of Japan/Testimony of gardeners
SPIRITUAL JAPAN NIWAKI TOUR 2017 – Day 1
October 30, 2017. Here we are ! This is the 1st day of the SPIRITUAL JAPAN NIWAKI TOUR 2017 – 5th edition,...
Creation, maintenance and tips for my Japanese garden/Our health and inner realization through our garden - Niwatherapy©/Traditions and culture of Japan/Testimony of gardeners
Therapeutic Japanese gardens – Niwatherapy© – Frederique DUMAS
Japan is the home of forest therapy and shinrin yoku 森林浴, which literally means “forest baths”. We f...
Creation, maintenance and tips for my Japanese garden/Techniques of niwaki/Traditions and culture of Japan
SPIRITUAL JAPAN NIWAKI TOUR 2016 – Day 1
October 26th, 2016. Here we are! This is the first day of SPIRITUAL JAPAN NIWAKI TOUR 2016 – 4th edition, ...
Japan 2016 – Day 4 – Kitano-ku & Omotesenke
In full form today, I choose my preferred means of locomotion in Kyoto … the bicycle ! It allows me each t...
Creation, maintenance and tips for my Japanese garden/Traditions and culture of Japan/Testimony of gardeners
New ephemeral tsuboniwa at NIWAKI Inspiration ZEN Academy
The summer period is conducive to the “tsuboniwa” internships, with the creation of two new ephemera...
New project of chaniwa at SHIZEN NO SEI Garden
Second project at SHIZEN NO SEI Garden, but this time it is a chaniwa and its roji – Beginning of the working si...
Creation, maintenance and tips for my Japanese garden/Our health and inner realization through our garden - Niwatherapy©/Traditions and culture of Japan/Testimony of gardeners
Second tsuboniwa creation in the Shizen no sei Garden – Part 3
Now, under extremely clement skies for this late September, it is the home stretch for our second tsuboniwa in S...
Creation, maintenance and tips for my Japanese garden/Our health and inner realization through our garden - Niwatherapy©/Traditions and culture of Japan
Second tsuboniwa creation in the Shizen no sei Garden – Part 1
We are now ready to move on to creating our second tsuboniwa, a tsukubai that will take place in a corner of th...
Creation, maintenance and tips for my Japanese garden/Our health and inner realization through our garden - Niwatherapy©/Traditions and culture of Japan/Testimony of gardeners
Tsuboniwa – Chiisana takebayashi 小さな竹林
Our first tsuboniwa is finally finished. A “small bamboo grove” or Chiisana takebayashi 小さな竹林, green...