Borrowed scenery

Borrowed scenery
Borrowed scenery in the style of Song and Ming Dynasty gardens located at the Zhishan Garden
Chinese name
Chinese借景
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinjièjǐng
Japanese name
Kanji借景
Transcriptions
Romanizationshakkei

Borrowed scenery (借景; Japanese: shakkei; Chinese: jièjǐng) is the principle of "incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden" found in traditional East Asian garden design. The term borrowing of scenery ("shakkei") is Chinese in origin, and appears in the 17th century garden treatise Yuanye.

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