The Japanese use moss as part of the wabi-sabi aesthetic, which centers on accepting transience and imperfection. It embraces ...

Kokedama is a unique form of Japanese bonsai ... Start by soaking the moss in a bucket of water for one hour to rehydrate the organic material before you use it in the design.

A Japanese garden is a miniature world full ... have been trying to provoke deep thoughts, with design elements such as raked gravel paths and moss checkerboards and tiny bonsai trees trained ...

Blue-and-white flycatchers and Japanese pygmy woodpeckers chirp over ... The temple is also famous for its moss garden featuring seven stone statues of “warabe jizo,” the guardian deity ...