Dan Pearson is so quiet and modest. Love it. He's the spitting image of Monty Don, British gardener extraordinaire, except like 40 years younger. LOL.

At 6:52. Katsura Villa, the actual palace structure which this garden surrounds, is famous in the West for having inspired the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Bauhaus architects and interior designers. It's stark, simple, geometric interiors, all built in the early 1600s, heavily influenced the sleek, simple modernist interiors and profiles of so many buildings in the West starting in the early 1920s and going into the 1950s. I hope we get to see a glimmer of this extremely important building almost unknown among Westerners.

This was a fabulous video, I loved that you showed the bamboo where they make the screens. The whole video was excellent!

Beautiful gardens and lovely video, Dan looks so young .

Thank you for these precious insights! Japanese culture makes me love rain, that I actually always hated.

I always pay my respects at Ryoan ji as the first thing I do when visiting Kyoto. Japan is a marvelous country to visit.

Oh my Lord thank you. Sooooo beautiful!!!!

beautiful mind relaxing documentary

So amazing beautiful video...thank you...I like Japan too much 👍🙏🌲🌳🌈

Stunningly beautiful. Thank you.

Your voice is an absolute treasure.

This was surprisingly lovely!

At 12:18. The Saihoji moss garden, conceivably one of the most beautiful gardens in the world. Too bad it's closed off to the public. I would die, just DIE, to go and see it. It's so wonderful that Dan Pearson is friends with this Buddhist monk. He's getting him access everywhere. That was so not the case with Monty Don when he visited Kyoto. The only other gardens that are comparable in beauty, IMHO, are the Ninfa garden in central Italy and the garden of Villa Cimbrone in southern Italy.

Beautiful ❤️

At 21:00. I've been fortunate enough to see the Ryoanji garden. It was with a group, so I didn't get the solitude that you rightfully need to concentrate on it. But it is gorgeous. I think the wall in the back makes the garden. Without that rustic wall, it would fall a bit flat. The rust-like colors and gradients remind me of my most favorite painting by Francisco Goya, of a dog drowning in an unfeeling universe. I can't believe that Goya, one of Spain's greatest artists, echoed a Japanese zen garden that tries to encapsulate the Buddhist universe. It's uncanny.

This is very interesting and peaceful

wow

Same question, when was this originally published? The streets and dress look like they could be around 50 years old?

how old is this?

1:20 Typical Bri'ish gentleman. Such a polite people.