# Mughal Garden (ムガル庭園)

> The chahar bagh scaled to empire: stepped water channels and white marble pavilions achieving, at Shalimar and the Taj, the full integration of building and garden.

- IndexStyle No.408 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/mughal-garden
- Kind: Style · Family: Garden Styles · Era: 16th–18th century
- Mood: Luxury, Calm, Exhilaration
- Color cues: #e9e6dd / #67635d / #171615 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

- Stepped water channels
- White marble against water
- Symmetrical avenues
- Tomb and garden unified

## Best used for

- Comparing primary sources and canonical works
- Extracting principles that transfer to other media

## Research method

This entry records a historical style; derive the treatment from its sources rather than a fixed recipe:

- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process

## What to avoid

Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.

## Application checklist

Before calling a piece an application of this style, check it against the defining characteristics:

- [ ] Stepped water channels
- [ ] White marble against water
- [ ] Symmetrical avenues
- [ ] Tomb and garden unified
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **Persian Garden (ペルシャ庭園)** — The origin of the chahar bagh, quartered by crossing water channels: a walled paradise of water and shade built against the desert. It gave the word paradise its meaning and the garden its archetype from Islam to the Mughals. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/persian-garden
- **Mughal Miniature (ムガル細密画)** — Condenses court life, history, nature and story into a small plane through precise brushwork, gold, pigments, ornamental borders and multiple viewpoints. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/mughal-miniature

## Further study

- the Shalamar Gardens
- the Taj Mahal's fourfold garden
- the staging of water

## Reference works

- シャーラマール庭園（CC BY-SA 4.0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shalimar%20Gardens%20(Lahore).jpg
- 水路の段（CC BY-SA 4.0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shalimar%20Gardens%20(Lahore)%201.jpg

## Source of record

- UNESCO — Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore — https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/171/

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/mughal-garden
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/mughal-garden/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compose_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)

## 日本語

ペルシャのチャハルバーグを大陸規模に展開したムガル朝の庭。水路の段差と白大理石のパヴィリオンが、タージ・マハルやシャーラマール庭園で建築と庭の完全な統合を実現した。

特徴: 段差のある水路／白大理石と水面／対称の並木／廟と庭の一体化
注意: 表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。