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| 31 | These are two statues that were first erected when the area was developed.
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| 32 | They're Egyptian to recognize the origin
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| 33 | of gardening in the Egyptian Nile Delta.
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| 45 | This is a Japanese Garden of Contemplation. There are certain key
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| 46 | elements to look out for here, such as the kind of paradise element; this is a miniaturised, a very abstract version of nature.
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| 47 | So everything here is very tightly controlled, and yet, represents something in nature. So some people like to think of this as
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| 48 | a miniature landscape. You might say that the moss here is like fields, you know like we're flying across the fields. </br />
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| 49 | The other thing to look out for in the Japanese Garden of
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| 50 | Contemplation is the rocks and the rock placement. Have a look at the three rocks. When you look at them they don't look like much
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| 51 | special but they are a classic kind of Confucian arrangement; where the two little rocks are bowing to the big rock there, which tells
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| 52 | you something about respect for authority and respect to your elders. So there's coded messages in the garden, which it gives you a lot
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| 53 | of pleasure and is fun to try and deconstruct or decode.<br/>
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| 55 | The Japanese garden tries to create something like an abstract version of nature. For example, if look at the trees. See how the branches
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| 56 | are all trained to be straight out there and the trunk is curved; you look at very, very old pine trees they actually do that by themselves.
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| 57 | But this is a very young pine tree but it's trained to look old. We don't want something that's a hundred feet tall because that would be out
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| 58 | of scale with the garden. So Japanese gardens are a bit like Bonsai: it's trained to look very,
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| 59 | very old and very big, but actually they're quite young and they're quite small.
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