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The
Nature of Japanese Garden Art - Seijaku
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Seijaku
The calming influence one feels on entering a
Japanese Garden is due to SEIJAKU, the principle
that relates to quietness and stillness.
Silence and tranquillity prevail and all sense
of disturbance is absent. Reflections on
water often express this principle. Its
opposite is noise and disturbance.
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An old proverb says stillness is activity,
therefore SEIJAKU is thought of as an active
state though its effect is one of calm and unruffled
solitude.
Its timely and seasonal character has to do
with late autumn or early spring, and it is
evident at dawn and dusk, in the moonlight and
in snow-covered gardens.
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Calm inner-space at
Ise shrine
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A quiet scene at
Tofuku-ji temple
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The
Zen Principles which relate to the Niwa
are presented in the following pages:
| Fukinsei
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asymmetry
or dissymmetry |
| Kanso |
simplicity |
| Koko
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austerity,
maturity, bare essentials, venerable |
| Shizen |
naturalness,
absence of pretense |
| Yugen
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subtly
profound, suggestion rather than revelation |
| Datsuzoku |
unworldliness,
transcendence of conventional |
| Seijaku |
quiet,
calm, silent |
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