Help me design my Japanese garden

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I am currently gathering advices on how to create my own garden with certain Japanese elements of gardening. I have an absolutely flat, unused stripe of land, some 20 meters in width and 120 meters in length. I want to make it a place where I can stroll, sit and read, relax and contemplate.

So please, if you have any interesting garden designs or elements to suggest, please do so. Pictures would be very nice and I would be more than happy to consider your propositions.