The small scenic garden in Japan 2 The Japanese approach to controlling nature is not to make it into something different but to leave it the way it is, only make it smaller. Such as the Daisenin Garden, it is considered one of the masterpieces of minature landscapes garden.. Garden designed to be viewed from waiting area of the residence. Rocks—not trees or water—is the most important element to make natural smaller. It is the rocks that dictate the shape, movement, and space of trees and water. The grouping of rocks makes the reduced garden possible. Trees keep growing; water overflows or dries up. They are like human flesh, but rocks are like bone. A skeleton of rocks makes it possible to compress nature into a smaller space and bring it into the garden. Arranging rocks is a way of contracting nature---the sea, mountain rivers, everything. One arranges rocks so as to copy the scenery of some famous place, but one reduces it in scale and makes it one’s own. Trees and water are only secondary to this process of reduction. Someone may be wanted to know how one goes about making a reduced model of the sea using rocks. According Tachibana no Toshitsuna explains that if we can reproduce the image of rough crags weathered by the waves, it will be easy for people to imagine the great sea itself. Except that rocks can also be used to create the illusion of a great river or stream. It’s very fantastic. Someone said rocks are the nouns and verbs of the garden, trees and water are merely adjectives and ad verbs. This is the grammar of a garden. In the dry garden, making nature smaller depends not on copying some actual natural phenomenon on a reduced scale. Instead, a different process occurs. By paring, eliminating, cutting, peeling, and throwing away, a natural form not unlike a protoplasm results. Pare down and pare down some more. Discard the useless. Ryoanji garden is considered one of the masterpieces of dry landscapes. The rocks in garden have not been carved with a chisel. Someone ever said western-garden nature is man-made while Japanese-garden nature is made for man.