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THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



the King) at Cashmere; the Royal Gardens of Shah Leemar 

 near Lahore, the Garden of Madura at Mysore, and the Rose 

 Fields of Ghazepoor, near Allahabad. 1 



The Japanese derived their landscape garden originally from 

 the Chinese, but besides imitating Nature, they endeavour to im- 

 part to their designs a symbolical character, expressing an abstract 

 idea or sentiment such as * Retirement,' ' Meditation ' or ' Fidelity.' 



Japanese Mountain Garden in the { Shin ' or ' Finished Style.' 



According to Mr Conder, 2 gardening in Japan was first cultivated 

 as an art in the regency of Ashikaga Shogun Yoshimasha (between 

 1449 and 1472) in connection with tea-drinking ceremonies. As 



1 See ante pp. 40-42. 



2 For the following remarks I am mainly indebted to Mr Josiah Conder's 

 paper on 'The Art of Landscape Gardening in Japan,' at present only acces- 

 sible in the 'Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan,' but I hope it may 

 before long be published independently. 



