After the Onin civil war (1467-77) in the mid-Muromachi era, Zen temples were restored comprehensively, from buildings and rooms, to gardens, which is the background of the dry landscape garden. The objective of this study is to explore the methods for producing the scenic composition of dry landscape gardens, which were developed mainly in the Zen sect. In order to study these production methods, the authors delved into the shoin style of architecture accompanied with dry landscape gardens, the characteristics of the rooms inside the buildings, how landscape paintings of Zen art that were developed to ornament the rooms were produced, and what kinds of characteristics are possessed by the pictoral composition of the landscape paintings. As a result, it was analogized that the similarities between dry landscape gardens and landscape paintings are not only the subject matter but also the characteristics of their components.
