Japanese Temple Gardens 
KURODANIGRAVES 
KYOTO 
A picture always, you 
must note: line, texture, 
form and colour, all are 
duly and delicately con¬ 
sidered, and a space of 
garden is composed with 
all the laborious study 
that goes to the making 
of a screen or kakimono. 
H ow perfectly the whole 
thing composes in the 
Narita steps, the curve 
of the bridge, the sharp 
angle of the steps, the 
convolutions of volcanic 
rock, the clean cleavages 
of the slate chased with 
exquisite ideographs; 
a n d i n co 1 ou r, s i 1 ve r-gr ay 
slate stones and lichened 
granite, green bronze 
and the deeper green of 
cryptomeria leaves. Or 
STEPS AT NARITA 
again at the shrines of 
Uyeno, consider how 
wisely the garden itself 
is reduced to the sim- 
plest forms, gravel and 
flat stones and a few big 
•bronze lanterns. Here 
the cherry trees are 
supreme and they are 
given full|Sway: flowers 
and shrubs are banished, 
for they are unnecessary. 
The great trees do their 
full work : yet this is 
good gardening, and 
quite as legitimate as 
would be the case were all 
the flowers of the earth 
brought into requisition. 
A Japanese gardener 
can work with anything 
—or almost nothing: 
There is a legend of a 
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