Japanese Landscape Gardening 



flat garden — rough style. 



Plate VI will give an idea of this style, in which the ele- 

 ments so luxuriously represented in the previous forms are 

 simplifie-d ; in this case the ground itself is reduced to a 

 layer of fine earth. A well, a lantern, and trees, stones, etc., 

 illustrate this peculiar type with a water basin and a drain, 

 two small groups of stones, a few stepping-stones on spa- 

 cious ground. Stone i, in the center, is termed "Guardian 

 Stone"; Stone No. 2 is known as "Worshipping Stone," or 

 "Honour Stone"; the two merge into one, with two combi- 

 nations of the Stone 3. Stone 3, located in the west and 

 termed the "Stone of the Setting Sun," forms a quite im- 

 portant element, to which are combined two other rocks, one 

 bush, and one large-leaved plant. No. 4, called "Stone of the 

 Two Gods," is the typical one among a smaller group of orna- 

 ments in the eastern foreground. Here the stepping-stones are 

 rather few. They are bolder, and somewhat rough in nature. 



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