Japanese dry landscape, or karesansui, is a traditional Japanese garden style that uses carefully arranged rocks, gravel, and sand to represent natural scenery. This style emphasizes the beauty of simplicity and quietude, often incorporating elements such as a rock to represent a mountain, a gravel bed to symbolize water, and moss or evergreen plants to represent forests. The term 'static' indicates that the garden is designed to be visually stable and unchanging over time.