(↑ and ↓) The circular Pit House in Japan by UID Architects. (↑) A sectioned off, tiny mountain garden in Hiroshima. (↑ and ↓) Another spare apartment by UID architects in Hiroshima. (↑) A little garden that grows right through the Machi House and up towards the skylights. (↑ and ↓) The Machi House by UID Architects in Fukuyama, Japan. (↑) Mossy, peanut shaped patches dotting white rocks in Kagawa, Japan. (↑ and ↓) A low slung little cabin in Kagawa, Japan by Japanese architect Hironaka Ogawa. (↑) A pretty garden in a glass box in Kamakura, Japan. (↑ and ↓) A cube-shaped family home in Kamakura, Japan by local Level Architects. (↑) Arbol Design's walls of rock and branch gardens. (↑ and ↓) A glass wall-lined home by Japanese architects Arbol Design in Osaka, Japan. (↑) The statue-adorned namesake backyard at the PC garden. (↑ and ↓) PC garden by famed pile o' sticks architect Kengo Kuma. (↑) Perhaps the most lavish of all the zen gardens (multiple trees! flowers!) in Aichi, Japan. (↑ and ↓) A charred cedar bungalow by Japanese studio MDS in Aichi, Japan. (↑) Just four trees and maybe a dozen stones at the Tokyo House. (↑ and ↓) The curving, tunnel-shaped Tokyo House in (yep!) Tokyo by Japanese architect Makiko Tsukada. (↑) A lonely thatch of trees in a slim courtyard in Ōita Prefecture, Japan. (↑ and ↓) A metal-clad box by Japanese architect Eto Kenta in Ōita Prefecture, Japan. (↑) One medium tree and one large rock at the F-House. (↑ and ↓) The F-House by Japanese architect Yukio Hashimoto in Gion, Japan. (↑) A single potted tree on the White Cave House's terrace. (↑ and ↓) White Cave House by Japanese firm Takuro Yamamoto Architects in Kanazawa, Japan. (↑) A mossy inner courtyard at the The Eagle Ridge Residence. (↑ and ↓) The Eagle Ridge Residence by Gary Gladwish Architecture in Orcas Island, Wash. So leave behind luscious yards, lavish patios, and wild outdoor amenities for a moment, and come take a peaceful stroll through some of the most minimalistic homes in the world (ok, they're mainly in Japan) and the even simpler, starker gardens that surround them. For the small faction of people out there who find rollicking gardens and lavish flowerbeds to be deeply stressful, the best type of courtyards, it seems, come in the form of a single spindly tree, a handful of pebbles, and maybe an artfully trimmed tract of moss, but not a stitch more than that.
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