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Certainly this method of treatment is more artistic than a coat 

 of paint.* The intervening" spaces l)etween the charred cedar 

 boards are filled with bamboo strips for the artistic efifect. The 

 fence posts at intervals have cross i)ieces and brackets at the top 

 which carry a light Ijoarded roof of graceful projection. The 

 roofed fence gives a touch of dignity to the enclosure and serves 

 also to shut out distracting sights and sounds. 



Fig. 4. Madam Okuda serving tea (6798). 



The pair of hinged door panels on the entrance gate (Oiiiote- 

 mon) have ovate openings cut out at the top which arc called 

 Lotus Window, or Rcn-so, a ])opular ovate form of opening in 

 Japanese architecture. The gate leads by a short path to the 

 tea house, past a 1)eautiful white flowering Japanese cherry 

 (Fig. 2). 



On the right, just inside of the entrance gate, there stands a 

 wooden post lantern known by the name of Who Goes There? 



* Since the above was written the original fence of charred boards has 

 been rcphiccd with a new fence in which the same effect has been obtained 

 by another method. 



