Japanese Zen Garden, Ursa Major

One of the must see Japanese Zen gardens from Kyoto, located inside the Tofuku-ji Temple, impresses with both its very special beauty and the message it conveys: that to create real beauty you don't need expensive materials, you just need inspiration...

The 7 cylindrical stones you see here were actually just leftovers from construction works. In 1939, Mirei Shigemori, a famous Japanese gardens designer saw them and created this brilliant work: a Zen image of the Ursa Major constellation...