PLATE XXXI. 



OKANO-NO-NIWA, NEGISHI. 



This illustration has been given to show the style of a common city tea- 

 house garden, of the poorest class, in which a few simple features, artistically arrang- 

 ed, have been made to do duty as ornament. The upper view shows a rivulet 

 crossed by a bridge constructed of two fine slabs of granite which overlap and are 

 supported in the middle on a wooden trestle built from the bed of the stream. 

 A stone lantern of the Standard class, another of the Legged class, and a few large 

 rocks and dwarf pine-trees, constitute the chief features of this portion of the grounds. 

 The lower illustration shows the rusticated stone well and pebbled drain-bed, with 

 the forked trunk of a tree to carry the well-pully; also rows of stepping stones 

 leading to the different rooms, a screen fence, and a few old trees. This garden 

 belongs to the class called " Tea-gardens," which have been specially described in 

 " Landscape Gardening in Japan." 



