“Kare-sansui” or dry landscape gardens are gardens in which natural landscapes are reproduced by representing water with rocks or sand.
White sand expresses water, while stones represent islands.
Kare-sansui is a distinctive style of Japanese garden, and depict landscape scenery without water, only with rocks and sand.
Such gardens are common at Zen temples, and it is said that the location of stones expresses the world of enlightenment or Buddhahood.
