These Miniature Zen Gardens Visualising Famous Haiku Poems Will Make You Really Zen

This Instagram project Home Zen Garden is inspired by traditional Japanese rock gardens and original haiku poetry.

Many of haiku poems might seem to be simple but they depict profound emotions or beautiful moments. Thinking about a visual representation of the haiku stories opens a great potential to reinforce one’s imagination, concentration and patience.

#1 An Old Silent Pond… A Frog Jumps Into The Pond, Splash! Silence Again. – Matsuo Bashō

#2 Moon In The Cold – Only My Own Footsteps On The Bridge. – Tan Taigi

#3 In My Head A White Summer Field. – Soshu Takaya

#4 Toward Those Short Trees We Saw A Hawk Descending On A Day In Spring. – Masaoka Shiki

#5 Don’t Worry, Spiders, I Keep House Casually. ― Kobayashi Issa

#6 Night; And Once Again, The While I Wait For You, Cold Wind Turns Into Rain. – Masaoka Shiki

#7 I Kill An Ant And Realize My Three Children Have Been Watching. – Kato Shuson

#8 Mariner, Do Not Ask Whose Tomb This May Be, But Go With Good Fortune: I Wish You A Kinder Sea. ― Michael R. Burch

#9 Mountain-rose Petals Falling, Falling, Falling Now…waterfall Music. – Matsuo Basho

#10 Come, See The True Flowers Of This Pained World. ― Matsuo Bashō

#11 Wisteria Plumes Sweep The Earth, And Soon The Rains Will Fall. – Masaoka Shiki