Types of Eastern Oriental Gardens

Taoist Garden is the most ancient of eastern gardens. That was when Europe, all flaura and fauna that grew in Europe, they grew naturally. No human intervention. Taoism is older than 5000 years as the so called modernized (wait till they come back 100 yrs later from now) confine world history to their limited zeitgeists of the world.

Earliest gardens were taoist, found in China and Korea, both were united back then. Then the chinese moved to Japan. That is when what we considered nowadays to be zen gardens evolved from taoist gardens.

Kill Bill Vol 1 shows a bit of a japanese rock garden.

Taoism had a strong influence on the classical garden. After the proto-China dynasty (5206 BC – 220 AD), gardens were frequently constructed as retreats for monks seeking enlightenment by indulging in nature instead of running away from the elements that are Gods.

The Japanese rock garden (枯山水, karesansui) or "dry landscape" garden, often called a zen garden, creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water.

Traditional Japanese gardens can be categorized into three types: tsukiyama (hill gardens), karesansui (dry gardens) and chaniwa gardens (tea gardens). The main purpose of a Japanese garden is to attempt to be a space that captures the natural beauties of nature.