Jo Ryo En Japanese Garden, Japanese garden at Carleton College in Northfield, United States.
Jo Ryo En garden features stone lanterns, a bamboo drip basin, flat stones simulating a stream, and white gravel representing a lake across its quarter-acre space.
David Slawson designed and constructed the garden between 1974 and 1976 following his two-year training period with master gardener Kinsaku Nakane in Kyoto.
The name Jo Ryo En translates to Garden of Quiet Listening, reflecting the meditative principles of Japanese dry landscape garden design.
Located behind Watson Hall on Carleton College campus, the garden remains open to visitors without admission fees throughout the year.
The garden incorporates ancient rocks collected within a hundred-mile radius of Northfield, maintaining local geological connections while following Japanese design principles.
Location: Northfield
GPS coordinates: 44.45920,-93.14970
Latest update: March 2, 2025 21:56
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