Artistic Japanese Features for Gardens and Country Estates 
appear so grotesque to us and 
mean so much to them. The stair¬ 
way runs up at one side. The one 
illustrated was brought from 
Japan, where it was carefully 
taken down, and here it was as 
carefully put up again, by Japa¬ 
nese workmen, after its long 
journey. It might be copied at 
a modest figure. 
Gateways, as they are under¬ 
stood by most persons, may be 
charmingly done in the Japanese 
fashion, too. 
A gateway in a wall or iron 
fence may be artistically accom¬ 
plished in carved stone and orna¬ 
mented iron work, while a wall 
of brick, with wide mortar joints, 
is effective with a gateway done 
in brick and tile. 
Or the gateway may be of 
wood, painted as well as carved. 
Indeed, the painting is an im¬ 
portant item of all Japanese fea¬ 
tures. Without their peculiarly 
brilliant shade of red paint or lacquer it is all wrong. 
Placed near by the temple gate already writ¬ 
ten of, and over a stream connecting two lotus 
ponds, is a Japanese bridge. This wooden struc¬ 
ture spans most sketchily the pretty ribbon of 
JAPANESE TEMPLE GATE AS A STUDIO 
AN ATTRACTIVE JAPANESE BRIDGE 
water, and the stately pink and white flowers have 
an unusually fragile appearance as compared with 
the stocky little bridge with its nearly circular fiery 
red railings and supports. The remainder of the 
bridge is left natural color. Of a truth it has not the air 
of a bridge built for Americans, but 
rather seems designed for the atti- 
tudinizings of a troupe of players 
from the land of the Mikado or 
for this wonderful folk as we 
know them on the paper fans from 
the land across the sea. 
The beautiful Wistaria, the leg¬ 
endary pine (both grown by the 
Japanese to perfection) that chal¬ 
lenger of the breezes, the tall bam¬ 
boo, should supplement the pic¬ 
ture in those grounds favored with 
Japanese architectural touches, 
while the porcelain bowl with its 
pigmy garden, includinga gnarled, 
lichen-covered evergreen, will 
adorn the temple gate studio. 
It is peculiarly interesting that 
just as we are going in for Japa¬ 
nese features en grand, the Japs 
themselves are broadening their 
scheme of gardening, the advanced 
Japanese landholder now speak¬ 
ing of his horticultural interests 
by the hundred acres instead of 
by the square foot. 
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