Kyoto Ryoanji Shrine
2008 Kyoto, Japan
This 2008 photograph shows Ryoan-ji in Kyoto, whose Zen rock garden of raked gravel and carefully placed stones is one of Japan's best-known examples of karesansui, or dry landscape, design.
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