House & Garden 
LOTUS, PALM AND PINE 
and blended, and finally composed into a 
perfectly united whole. 
Almost every temple garden has a peculiar 
quality, some one feature that is dominant 
and sets the keynote, as it were. Here at 
Ishiyama, it is volcanic rock ; at Uyeno, it is 
the cherry ; at Kama¬ 
kura, the lotus; at 
Nara, the purple fuji; 
at Nikkd, druidic 
cryptomeria guard the 
shrines of the dead 
Shoguns. At the 
Nishi Hongwanji in 
Koyto again, water 
seems almost to play 
the principal part, 
while at the gardens 
of the Ginkakuji it is 
white sand wrought 
into mounds and 
delicate pavement 
patterns. Here is 
“ the platform of sil¬ 
ver sand,” and beyond it, “ the mound that 
looks toward the moon,” consecrated by the 
lordly Yoshimasa and still heaped as for the 
great Shogun’s enthronement, though tour 
centuries and more have passed since “ he 
became one with the gods.” 
Whatever the key¬ 
note it holds through¬ 
out the composition, 
as at Shiogama, the 
tall gray masts of the 
cryptomeria are 
echoed and empha¬ 
sized by the vanishing 
lines of the enormous 
steps, the slim verti¬ 
cals of the white staffs 
and'the uprights of 
the granite torii. 
Shinto is a barbarous 
anachronism, it is to 
Buddhism about what 
Mormonism is to 
Christianity, but it 
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