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 
simplified; 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, 
CASCADE 
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