Etymology

saikei

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Today it means: The art of creating miniature landscapes with living trees, rocks, water, etc., each landscape in a single tray. Full definition →

Japanese 栽景
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The story

  1. Japanese · derived from栽景
  2. English todaysaikei

Japanese 栽景 (literally “planted landscape”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.