{"id":"moss-garden","no":363,"name":"Moss Garden","ja":"苔庭","era":"14th century–","family":"庭園の様式","kind":"スタイル","collection":"Dictionary expansion 20","addedAt":"2026-08-18","source":{"title":"西芳寺（苔寺）","url":"https://saihoji-kokedera.com/"},"reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://saihoji-kokedera.com/","credit":"西芳寺（苔寺）","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Saih%C5%8D-ji%20(Nishikyo%20Kyoto)%20hdsr%20Garden%20S5%2091.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saih%C5%8D-ji%20(Nishikyo%20Kyoto)%20hdsr%20Garden%20S5%2091.jpg","credit":"西芳寺の苔庭（CC BY 4.0）"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Saih%C5%8D-ji%20(Nishikyo%20Kyoto)%20hdsr%20Garden%20S5%20246.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saih%C5%8D-ji%20(Nishikyo%20Kyoto)%20hdsr%20Garden%20S5%20246.jpg","credit":"苔の面（CC BY 4.0）"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ishikawa%20Koke-no-sato%20xl.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ishikawa%20Koke-no-sato%20xl.jpg","credit":"石川県 苔の里 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0"}]},"essence":"百余種の苔が地表を覆う西芳寺に代表される、時間と湿度が育てる庭。緑の濃淡だけで構成される面は、手入れと放置の均衡という日本的な美学の実演になっている。","cues":["苔の面の濃淡","木漏れ日の設計","時間が主材料","湿度の気配"],"intents":["静けさ","親密","懐かしさ"],"works":["日陰で湿度の高い場所を、弱点ではなく主題に変えるとき","数年かけて育つことを前提にできる庭や中庭の計画"],"recipe":{"type":"樹名板を置かず、苔の種類の違いは緑の差として見せる","layout":"地表を一続きの面として扱い、園路と石で面を区切る","material":"樹冠を透かして木漏れ日を作り、落葉の量まで管理する"},"avoid":"完成形を初年度から出そうとして苔を敷き詰め、日照と水はけを整えないまま枯らして地肌を出す。","colors":["#d7d98d","#447414","#0e1d0c"],"motif":"garden","pair":["karesansui","roji"],"study":["西芳寺","苔の種構成","杉苔の管理"],"en":{"essence":"A garden that time and humidity grow, as at Saihō-ji, where more than a hundred species of moss cover the ground. Its surfaces are composed from nothing but shades of green, a demonstration of the Japanese balance between tending a place and leaving it alone.","cues":["Gradations of moss","Designed dappled light","Time as the main material","The presence of humidity"],"works":["Shaded, humid sites where the condition becomes the subject instead of a problem","Gardens and courtyards planned to take years to arrive"],"recipe":{"type":"No plant labels, with species read as differences in green","layout":"Treat the ground as one continuous surface divided by path and stone","material":"Thin the canopy for dappled light and manage even how much litter falls"},"avoid":"The finished look is demanded from the first year, moss gets laid wall to wall without fixing light and drainage, and it dies back to bare soil.","study":["Saihō-ji","the moss species palette","the keeping of sugi-goke"]},"links":{"page":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/moss-garden","json":"https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/moss-garden","designSpec":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/moss-garden/design.md","imagePrompt":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/moss-garden/prompt.txt"},"usage":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseName":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org","attributionUrl":"https://indexstyle.org","scope":"Original IndexStyle text and structured data. Reference images, quoted works, and third-party material are excluded and retain their own rights."}}