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青龍
Seiryū · “the azure dragon” — guardian of the east
The Blue Dragon garden
A dry stream, spruces clipped in the karikomi technique and the third suikinkutsu.
Planned
What it is
Seiryū is the azure dragon, guardian of the east, who answers for spring, for wind and for water in motion. In the garden he is read through a channel: a dry stream laid with pebbles winds between the stones like the body of a dragon.
Karikomi is the technique of clipping shrubs and conifers into dense, flowing volumes. It gives the garden what scales give the dragon: an unbroken form that holds all year round.
How ours is made
A dry stream, spruces in the karikomi technique, a suikinkutsu by the hill.
The most “mobile” of the three gardens: the channel sets the direction of the gaze and leads it inwards.
- Compass point
- East
- Motif
- A dry stream
- Planting
- Spruces in the karikomi technique
- Status
- Planned