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Japanese gardens often have a Zen garden designs influence. The Zen garden has thousands of years of influence from Shintoism, Taoism and Buddhism. They create a landscape that allows those in the garden to view nature with a different eye. They use the principals of Yin and Yang to make high contrast throughout the garden.

Yin and yang represent how things work. The symbol for Yin and Yang is a circle formed by two teardrop shapes. They represent the energy in everything. One is black with a white dot and the other is white with a black dot. The yin is black and the yang is white. The dots in each show that nothing is completely one type of energy.

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