Delray Beach in Palm Beach County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)

Late Rock Garden

石庭

— (Muromachi Period, 15th century) —

Late Rock Garden Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Ian Lefkowitz, January 27, 2026

1. Late Rock Garden Marker

Inscription.
A completely abstract garden space enclosed by walls and composed principally of rock arrangements and coarse gravel as an aid to meditation in a Zen Buddhist discipline.

Funded by the Homer & Martha Gudelsky Family Foundation

Erected by Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Horticulture & Forestry • Religion & Religious Structures.

Location. 26° 25.597′ N, 80° 9.483′ W. Marker is in Delray Beach, Florida, in Palm Beach County. It can be reached from Morikami Park Road west of Puzzle Place, on the left when traveling west. The marker is located on the grounds of Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens and is accessible with an entry ticket. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach FL 33446, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in South Florida,

on the Gold Coast,

on the Treasure Coast,

and in Greater Miami.

It is also in the American South

and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is

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in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Early Rock Garden (within shouting distance of this marker); 平庭 Hiraniwa Flat Garden (within shouting distance of this marker); 浄土庭園 / Paradise Garden (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Col. Ellison Shoji Onizuka (about 300 feet away); What is Bonsai? (about 400 feet away); Shinden Garden (about 700 feet away); Welcome to Wakodahatchee Wetland (approx. 3.7 miles away); Boca Raton Army Air Field B-34 Crash (approx. 5.1 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Delray Beach.

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In Japan, flat expanses of raked gravel, with little more than a few well chosen rocks carefully placed here and there, were the legacy of the early
Photographed by Ian Lefkowitz, January 27, 2026

2. Late Rock Garden Marker
The marker is located on a side path that leads to the rock garden.
Zen rock garden which represented a tumbling waterfall. Laid out beside residence halls at Zen temples, these later rock gardens called “dry landscapes” (karesansui) took abstraction of nature to an extreme never before seen in garden design. Almost devoid of plants, such gardens challenge our Western notions of what gardens should be, while their uniqueness as landscape designs have made them the most widely recognized of all Japanese garden types.

(Submitted on January 30, 2026, by Ian Lefkowitz of New York, New York.)

Additional keywords. landscape architecture

Late Rock Garden image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Ian Lefkowitz, January 27, 2026

3. Late Rock Garden

An example of karesansui, a dry "landscape."

Credits. This page was last revised on March 3, 2026. It was originally submitted on January 30, 2026, by Ian Lefkowitz of New York, New York. This page has been viewed 38 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on January 30, 2026, by Ian Lefkowitz of New York, New York. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.