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Well put thanks

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, been looking for this

Great video as always! Thanks for making these.

Good to see you back online! As always very interesting topic and explaind in a great way.

Nice video

Hi, Joshua! Great video! I wonder on which pillar would you place origami, calligraphy and Ikebana? (or Ekebana?) I just love to play with washi papers, ink and flowers. I've studied minimalism art during my study in interior design (was a long time ago...). Found Bauhaus a little bit "cold". Find japanese aesthetics warmer and more natural. "Domo" for your answer...greetings from Québec!👋🀄💛

Great playing

Do you ever see a few strings spanning across a short section of the foot bridge? I saw one in a video on FB and wondered if it had a purpose or was put there in whimsy. People had to maneuver to walk through it.

Minimalism as a modern concept comes from the Bauhaus movement in Geneva. Traditionally though; Japan used to practice minimalism in the form of acetism and Zen Buddhism. This is a far cry from modern Japan which is the very antithisis of any form of minimalsim. Current day Japan is all about hyper capitalism/consumerism. Japanese minimalism is a modern day myth perpetuated and exclusive to Japan's old money, super elite who build these minimalist structures as architectural follies. No one actually lives like this in reality.

I found out that most of the “Japanese” things aren’t originally Japanese.

7:42 I see a face on the left side lower with what appears a partial thick sold necklace...I love the affect of these videos. I do hope you will do more. Right now, it's warm here, yet watching this video seemed to bring some coolness in my experience. Thank you.

Thank you, very beautiful. I am drawn to the hermitage or tea garden style. Getting ideas for my back yard

Great video. I'm doing research on a painting that I need to do of a garden. This really helped to give me a better understanding of the elements of garden design, rather than just painting what I thought looked cool. Just subbed. keep going man.

I’m curious where does bonsai come in ? Beyond an indoor hobby what is the connection to pruning trees in the Japanese garden, is this where bonsai gets its roots ?

Great info!

I always thought it'd be really cool for someone to build a series of Japanese gardens in different ecosystems using only native plants to that ecosystem (such as boreal forests, desert, prairie, tropical rainforest, wetland, mountain ect) or a single botanical garden set up as a Japanese garden where different sections bring you to each of those ecosystems)

That stain in the cement pathway is excellent.

I leave my garden to walk in the forest for peace when the torrent that flows next to it gets too noisy. Funny to think of you townies creating artificial waterfalls but mine are good to sit in if we get hot weather in this temperate rainforest

You creating fantastic work, my friend. I just love it. Antoine.

Hello Friend. This is one of the many beautiful videos you have posted here. Wabi Sabi is something I've been looking at for a while. I couldn't put my finger on it but your videos helped me figure it out. I have been taking photographs for almost 35 years now and I am no longer the youngest. And that's why I think this beautiful way of photographing suits me very well. I can completely empathize with this way of photographing. But I also find the videos about first taking the time to observe your subject or possible subject very educational. I will of course follow you and have subscribed to your channel. I hope to learn a lot from you about the photographic path I have now taken. Kind regards from the Netherlands, Antoine.

I crave calm. I akso feel like the front entrance or first part of the home where people enter should be austere and muted. The tea garden style is if the person gets past the formal entrance. thanks for your videos. I feel somehow understood.

Excellent Josh, thanks, and great photos in there. I’m seeing that my natural instincts or aesthetic sense seems to be vey much in line with this idiom or ethos.

Awesome in the right environment, not appropriate for hot climates though, struggling with white in Florida can’t even imagine what that would do to HVAC systems 😮

Great video! Nature is truly the best reset button.

When the stepping stones are very uneven, it seems most people would be tempted to just walk on the gravel.

Mini rock gardens were the style in the west in the sixties and seventies. Flowers and bushes were planted around rocks on a hill or a slant. That's gone the way of the Dodo bird.

Some of the Japanese gardens are a little too complex for my taste, sometimes. The more simple, the better. It has to be incorporated into our North-American landscape. Just a few elements and principles might be sufficient.

I think it's difficult for westerners to replicate these types of gardens - unless they've studied under a master.

Black exterior + contemporary architecture + lots of shade trees and minimal landscaping does it for me.

Within nature with plenty of green around works best for me. Not so much suburban with very little foliage. And the shade of black matters as well. More towards the grey or charcoal for me.. Especially pretty with there is light wood bordering and doors and pergolas, etc. Great video, thanks.

Love the look of the black houses…. Stunning 🤩

It is so gorgeous there. Love the Japanese flute. Is that you playing the flute? Bravo for all of your talents and for sharing.

Gorgeous in every way. This combination of flute and images makes me feel nostalgic for Japan - even though I've never even been there.

So beautiful and serene…both the visuals and scenery.

俗 zoku: Though less emphasized in Japanese culture than Chinese, it supposedly has a larger meaning than just routine, more of a mundaneness and average mediocre lowbrowness is closer to the meaning, if I may humbly suggest. So 脫俗 datsuzoku means out of this mundane mediocre mess, into something more profound. 🦊🐱🐷

Beautiful works! Thank you.

Thanks Josh, very enjoyable. Some excellent photos - just to pick out one, the one at 2:25 I really like.

Lovely. and great to see how the regular people of Japan live outside the city. Would have preferred Asian music but that' s just my preference. Thank you!

some cool shots, enjoy

Lovely and true to life and nature. Thank you.

"The dreaded koi pond volcano" Do you have any tips for incorporating a koi pond then? I'm looking at this as fishkeeper who would love to someday have a koi pond (and accompanying garden) as my ultimate place of calm.

This video was truly helpful. I am starting to learn about Japanese garden design. Would like to design/install something like this across the front of my mid-century brick 1-story ranch. It's quite shady, due west with a huge overhang, which makes it difficult to do a "normal" type of front yard landscape. Simplifying to a rock and moss garden with some Japanese grass and perhaps a few azaleas would be lovely.

Not just design. Japanese and Scandinavian culinary traditions are actually very similar as well.

Hi there! Just found your channel and have binge watched it all. I have a little front garden I'm redoing this summer. Is it possible to contact you for advice?

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How to develop this flow?

Thank you for this wonderful video! It will be my guide as I create my own little Japanese garden. 😊

not even sure where you’d find a boulder in the UK 😅

I would be very interested in how bonsai is integrated in the Japanese garden culture. What I took from the previous videos is the impression that these two things don't belong together. But actually they should.

Thanks Josh, and very much enjoyed your shakuhachi playing also. I like your emphasis or focus on the rustic regarding the garden - besides life in general! , which can offset a tendency one might have to an excessive preciousness regarding the ethos. Keeps a warmth and humility at the heart of things!