In 2003 the Journal of Japanese Gardening (USA) identified twenty-five public Japanese gardens in Australia. Australian garden experts were asked to determine which of these they considered the 'highest quality'. They were encouraged to use their owndefinition of 'quality'. The results indicated that quality was equated with authenticity, as the top six gardens were all designed by a Japanese landscape architect and any buildings within them were built in a traditional Japanese style. Of interest also, is that all of these gardens are less than thirty years old. This raises two questions: were there any authentic Japanese gardens in Australia prior to the 1980s, and what stimulated the creation of genuine Japanese gardens in the last thirty years?
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