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Japanese rock gardens (also known as Zen gardens) are made up of arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water. Zen gardens have been existing since around the Heian Period (784-1185). The first known manual of Japanese gardening was the Sakuteiki (Records of Garden Keeping).