Japanese rock garden (? ?? Karesansui?, Literal meaning: the dry landscape) or Zen garden is a garden style in Japan. Parks of this type do not use water. Natural landscape is depicted with stones and sand that represents water ponds and streams. People who saw asked to imagine that white stretch of sand and gravel are surface water. The bridge was built to give the impression there is water flow underneath. The patterns on the sand laid out with bamboo rake to symbolize the flow of water.

This park is abstract and mainly developed in Zen temples in the Muromachi period so it is also known as Zen garden. Nevertheless, the stone garden is one part of Japanese garden styles from earlier eras, such as in parks and gardens Kaiyu style Shinden-style home built zukuri official residence of the daimyo. Following the increasing popularity of rock garden on the Muromachi period, the Japanese rock garden is accepted as one of the Japanese garden style. Different styles and models from other Japanese garden, Japanese rock gardens did not require water. Therefore, allow people to make a rock garden Japanese garden in the place of hard water.

Garden stone that represents this style of garden is the garden of stone and Saiho Daitoku-ji-ji in Kyoto. Garden of Japan’s most famous stone in Ry?an-ji, Kyoto. Park-ji rock Ry?an only consists of 15 pieces of stone on a bed of sand surrounded by walls. In Ry?an-ji rock garden there was only sand and rocks, no trees or shrubs. Viewed from any angle (except from above), in-ji rock garden Ry?an only seen 14 pieces of stone.

Hanok is the name for a traditional Korean house that used to distinguish it from Western-style house, Korean architecture into account the location of the house from the surrounding environment, especially considering the circumstances of geography and season. Interior structure is also designed based on the location of the house. Principle called Baesanimsu (hangul: ????) literally set the ideal home to be built back to the mountains, and rivers are in front of the house. Hanok built facing east or south in order to get enough sunlight.

Korean traditional houses built from natural materials like wood, soil, stone, straw, tiles, and paper. Masts and Hanok framework made of wood. Wall charger frame house built of bricks made from a mixture of soil and grass. Korean traditional paper (hanji) installed in window frames, door frames, and siding. The floor is made of a hardened soil or rock.

Edge of the roof that curved up is called cheoma. Cheoma length determines the amount of sunlight coming into the Hanok. Based on the striking difference in the roof, Hanok broadly divided into two types: giwajip (thatched roof house) who inhabited the upper classes (yangban) and chogajip (thatched houses) who inhabited among farmers. Giwajip constructed using tiles (Giwa) so the cost of construction of houses to be expensive and not affordable by common people. By contrast, ordinary people lived in thatched houses which the ingredients easily obtainable. Hanok thatched roof is still used as a residence, while the Hanok thatched buildings has become scarce.