Construction Cases

The Nine Stones Garden and the Agate Hermitage

This client has visited Japan multiple times and has admired many Japanese gardens, with a particular fondness for the garden at Nijo Castle in Kyoto and the Adachi Museum of Art. Inspired by the seven celebrated stones in the garden of Nijo Castle, and in line with the auspicious number 9 regarded in Vietnam, we imported nine distinguished stones from Japan to create a Nine Stones Garden.
We employed the technique of dry landscape gardening, using stones and sand as primary materials to symbolically represent natural landscapes and the flow of water without using actual water. Although it may seem simple at first glance, it embodies a profound beauty, expressing the unique charm of Japanese gardens known as wabi-sabi.

To balance and enhance the grandeur of a magnificent cedar tree, we chose Kifune stone, renowned in Japan as a prestigious type of stone. This Kifune stone, with its unique expression, weighs 15 tons, and its installation was extremely challenging due to the limitations of the construction site, yet it has become a symbolic presence in the garden alongside the cedar tree.

Kifune stone is considered the finest among Japanese garden stones, with a variety of colors ranging from purple to green, although the purple Kifune stone is the most valuable and rare. Kifune stone is quarried in Kyoto, the heartland of Japanese gardens, and is particularly found only in the Kifune area, making its supply very limited and highly esteemed. It is one of the stones used in the seven-stone garden of Nijo Castle and is also utilized in other famous Japanese gardens.

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