| As China’s neighbors, Japan has been influenced deeply by Chinese classical cultural and ideological theory. But the Meiji restoration of Japan, totally absorb the western cultural thoughts after the mature and its national development, especially made extraordinary achievements of the development of culture. Now, Japan used its rich material base, the excellent technology and traditional aesthetics of relying on the unremitting pursuit, making Japanese garden now ranks among the world’s best gardens. Japan’s modern garden inherits the classical aesthetic essence, combined with western art concept and modern technology. It innovate the rich texture of modern art, and shows Japan’s traditional aesthetic temperament.Based on the local culture connotation and extension, the paper research of the traditional Japanese garden material and spirit, and the transformation method of the Japanese Garden, analysis of the local culture and elements in landscape architecture and. After analyzed the modern Japanese landscape works, summed up the modern Japanese gardening characteristics and the effort of heritage of local cultural. In contrast to modern Japanese landscape architecture development, deliberate Chinese garden development situation, through to the Chinese native culture in inheritance and fusion of outstanding landscape case, discussed the enlightenment of the development of Chinese modern landscape architecture.(1) In local Japanese culture system, the cultural connotation of Buddhism, Zen philosophy and tea culture, deeply influenced the development of Japanese traditional garden. After the Meiji Reform, traditional Japanese garden absorbed the western art philosophy, and it had not lost its traditional culture, instead of fusing together, which inherited the local culture, but also absorbed the western garden concept.(2) This paper comes to the conclusion that modern Japanese landscape architecture influenced by the various cultural systems. And the various elements of the modern landscape architecture reflect the essence of the Japanese local culture. Local culture inherited in the modern Japanese landscape architecture’s layout form, terrain, water, island pool, plant, construction, road pavement, and sketch. In the local Japanese culture, the cultural connotation of Zen, tea culture, Taoism, Confucianism, Ikebana, as well as the aesthetic design of immature, empty, unseen is the core of the modern Japanese Garden. (3) On the integration of the western modern art, modern Japanese landscape architecture gradually matures. The garden features embodied the following aspects:Double eclectic style, diversification design style, high-tech and art, ecological philosophy and art.(4) Through the analysis of modern Japanese landscape architecture works, combined with the actual situation of the development of Chinese landscape architecture, the article summed up the suggestions of Chinese landscape development methods:landscape design should be combined with regional environment, should be combined local national spirit, religion, color and art. Combined local culture with modern landscape design, take the Chinese modern landscape design innovation breakthrough. |