Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden. Experience a breathtaking journey through some of the most exquisite gardens in the world. Renowned for their beauty, Japanese gardens have been retreats for people to rediscover the natural world for more than 1,000 years. Dream Window reveals the secrets of both classical and contemporary Japanese gardens, including the legendary Moss Temple of Saiho-ji, Shugaku-in and Katsura Imperial Villas, and Sogetsu Hall. Prominent Japanese personalities add commentary, shedding light on the role of gardens in Japanese society today. (I first saw this beautiful documentary over 20 years ago on my local PBS station and was very happy to be able to find it again. Please enjoy the film!)
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Subarashi…………..
Nice Like from Croatia 🙋
Amazing… REAL MUSIC in one of these great documentaries! Takemitsu was a real master – not the usual drone student music that populates most of these types of videos.
One of my favourite documentaries of all time.
If you feel stressed, watch this and BREATHE- it will have you feeling better in no time (and try to meditate- that helps too and watching this excellent documentary is a form of meditation. Best Wishes to everyone.
This was made 25 years ago — beautiful
Great video! 🙂
I love Japanese Gardens and often blog about them. Beautiful video as to why everyone should consider a Japanese garden feature!
very beautiful and loved
Watching this is pure pleasure. Thankyou.
28:20 :
In my hand I hold the bowel of tea
I see all the nature represented in green color
close my eyes
I found green mountain and pure water in my heart
silently drinking
I feel it become part of me
It is hard to believe it that something so pristine,and beautiful can still exists on this planet!?
This narrator sounds like a murder.
I was in Kyoto this March. I've been to many gardens mentioned in this video. I like Shugaku-In the most. And Saiho-Ji (Moss garden) is no.2 in my list. No doubt the video is beautiful. But you have to be there, then you can be truly touched by the atmosphere & the spirit of the Nature. I still feel thrilled now by watching this video In fact, I've studied more of Japanese Garden after I come back from Kyoto 3 months ago.
Perfect. Thanks for little dialogue.
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Plenty of ASMR 😌
What a wonderful surprise. The music here is beautiful, brainy; and for me inspiring.
Beautiful stuff. It's got me feeling very inspired. I even wrote about it.
https://soundplaceandtime.blogspot.com/2018/06/zen-art-of-garden-maintenance-kyoto.html
hopefully this can be remastered and digitized to HD. beautiful film. very relaxing to the soul
80 , 000 peoms rise every night and not a single word has been spoken….
18:55 to the end of the statement.
Takemitsu my favourite composer
Great video. It was first aired on PBS . Thank you for the post .
I have five acres of mountain woodland I call a food forest, but for my heart it is a Zen garden.
It does produce a wealth of pine nuts.
This was enjoyable thank you 💕💕
Divine
Brilliant …😍 Creative A Masterpiece
My God, the evening scene at Ryoan-ji with the sound of the frogs and cicadas…is beyond words.
Hello can I publish your video after converting it in Hindi language plz
I've come back to this film so many times. So peaceful and beautiful. I'm so glad it's available here at YouTube!
Could someone tell me why Japanese garden designers have such an aversion to flowers? The only flower you'll ever see is Sakura.
Personally, I would love to have a garden, a bit like English and Japanese gardens (I really hate French ones) and make sure that every month, where possible that there's something blossoming or bearing fruit. I'm not talking about the most ornate flowers, or creating beds of flowers, but having them sprinkled in, like in a natural grass landscape (which would get me sued in many places, because a) they got rules on how long grass is allowed to grow in gardens, and b) if I let a weed grow, it's even worse…)
Does anyone know what the pieces of music that play throughout are? They're by Takemitsu but I'm trying to find the titles.
Superbe Film ! Merci beaucoup. Christian-Yves (France)
A joy to watch. I love everything about Japanese gardens except for the sand raking. The raked sand is just so ugly and such a waste of space. Its too orderly and unforgiving. If a squirrel runs across it the whole thing is ruined. The look-dont-touchness of it all makes me anxious rather than peaceful.
Can anyone recommend more documentaries like this one
The gardens are amazing, out of this chaotic world, it's like travelling back in time.
Just wondering why I can't see any birds there 🤔
Beautiful, thanks for sharing🙏
It damages the soul to watch these people sweep up the compost in the garden which gives nourishment to the insects and worms who then go on to create bountiful soil which allows for a healthy ecosystem and a beautiful garden.
If it was just the pathways then that would be fine. But it follows the same destructive logic of western gardens which destroys the environment and disrupts beneficial ecosystems in order to acquire a clean and pristine image.
Chinese gardens are much better at respecting its roots.