# 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.

- IndexStyle No.407 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/persian-garden
- Kind: Style · Family: Garden Styles · Era: 6th century BC–
- Mood: Calm, Luxury, Trust
- Color cues: #e9e6dd / #67635d / #171615 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

- Fourfold division by water
- Axial basins and channels
- The walled paradise
- Shaded avenues

## 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:

- [ ] Fourfold division by water
- [ ] Axial basins and channels
- [ ] The walled paradise
- [ ] Shaded avenues
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **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. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/mughal-garden
- **Islamic Geometric Pattern (イスラム幾何学文様)** — Divides, repeats and combines circles, squares, polygons and stars, building infinite extension and order on a finite plane. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/islamic-geometric-pattern

## Further study

- the chahar bagh structure
- Pasargadae
- qanat water engineering

## Reference works

- フィン庭園（CC BY-SA 4.0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fin%20Garden%20Kushak.jpg
- フィン庭園の水路（CC BY-SA 4.0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jard%C3%ADn%20de%20Fin%2C%20Kashan%2C%20Ir%C3%A1n%2C%202016-09-19%2C%20DD%2017.jpg

## Source of record

- UNESCO — The Persian Garden — https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1372/

## Machine surfaces

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

## 日本語

十字の水路で四分割するチャハルバーグ形式の原点。砂漠に水と木陰の楽園を築く設計思想は「パラダイス」の語源となり、イスラム世界からムガルまで庭園の祖型を供給した。

特徴: 十字水路の四分割／水盤と水路の軸／壁に囲まれた楽園／並木の木陰
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。