Jardins zen
Dans les années '80, j'ai eu l'occasion de visiter le Ryoan ji de Kyoto. Cette découverte m'a profondément marqué. Elle est pour beaucoup dans l'intérêt que je porte à la culture asiatique.
ce jour là, il pleuvait sur cette merveille...
Le Ryoan ji sur un superbe site en français, mais on peut aussi le voir ''pousser''
Somptueuse présentation Japanese Gardens Index du Bowdoin College connection parfois lente, patience !
Jardin Zen de Tao Yin
L'Art des Jardins Zen de Robert Linssen
The Gardens Of Tokyo de Tim Porter
Pour clore provisoirement ce chapitre, voici retranscrit tel quel un article paru dans NATURE | VOL 419 | 26 SEPTEMBER 2002 | www.nature.com/nature, l'une des plus prestigieuses revues scientifiques mondiales, article qui propose une interprétation du jardin de pierre du Ryoan ji...
Visual
structure of a Japanese Zen garden
The
mysterious appeal of a simple and ancient composition of rocks is
unveiled.
Fig
1
The Zen garden at
The dry landscape garden at
Created
during the Muromachi era (AD
1333–1573), a period
of significant innovation in the visual arts in
The
rocks have been considered to be symbolic
To
examine the spatial structure of the Ryoanji garden, we computed local axes of
symmetry using medial-axis transformation2,3, a shape-representation scheme that is used widely in image processing
as well as in studies of biological vision. To understand the concept of
medial-axis transformation, imagine drawing the outline of a shape in a field of
dry grass and then setting it alight: the medial axis is the set of points where
the inwardly propagating fires meet. It
has been shown that humans have an unconscious visual sensitivity to the
axialsymmetry skeletons of stimulus shapes5.
The
result of transforming the garden’s composition is shown in Fig. 2, in which
the dark lines indicate loci of maximal local symmetry. The overall structure is
a simple, dichotomously branched tree that converges on the principal
garden-viewing area on the balcony. The connectivity pattern of the tree is
self-similar, with the mean branch length decreasing monotonically from the
trunk to the tertiary level. Both features are reminiscent of actual trees.
Fig
2 Medial-axis transformation of the layout of the Zen garden, showing the rock
clusters (top) and building plan (AD 1681) of the
The
trunk of the medial axis, along which the view of the garden provides maximal
There
is a growing realization that scientific analysis can reveal unexpected
structural features hidden in controversial abstract paintings7,8.
We have uncovered the implicit structure of the Ryoanji garden’s visual ground
and have shown that it includes an abstract, minimalist depiction of natural
scenery. We
believe that the unconscious perception of this pattern contributes
to the enigmatic appeal of the garden.
*
Studies,
†ATR Media Information Science Laboratories,
Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
e-mail: mlyons@atr.co.jp
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Nanatsu no Nazo wo toku (Ryoanji Rock
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