Japanese Landscape Gardening 



HILL GARDEN— FINISHED STYLE 



served in garden construction that everyone adheres to the 

 principle. 



In general, the composition of gardens may be treated 

 under two divisions: Flat [liircDikva] and Hill Gardens 

 [tsukiyama-niiva], both of which may be again subdivided into 

 three different forms called, respectively, "Finished," "Inter- 

 mediary," and " Rough." 



HILL garden — FINISHED STYLE. 



Plate I represents an ordinary Hill Garden of the finished 

 style, and may be taken as the best form suitable to spacious 

 land, located in front of the principal building. The positions 

 of the principal hills, stones, trees, cascades, bridges, and isles 

 are all arranged, as shown upon the plate. 



HILLS. 



Hill I, which forms the central feature, represents a moun- 

 tain of considerable size, and should have broad sweeping sides. 

 Hill 2, always taken in connection with No. i, is to be placed 

 close by the latter, but is somewhat lower and consequentiv is 



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