House & Garden 
THE TEMPLE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN 
green cryptomeria, 
the effect is one 
of splendid colour 
hardly to be 
matched elsewhere. 
It is not around 
the great and 
famous temples 
that one finds the 
most alluring 
gardens, but in out- 
of-the-way spots, 
in forgotten valleys 
where foreign feet 
have seldom trod. 
Across the river 
from Uji I found 
one such garden in 
a hill temple I had 
never heard named 
before,—Koshoji. 
There is a river 
road up to where 
the tumbling 
Ujigawa bursts 
through a cleft in 
the hills; and 
IN THE MITO GARDEN, TOKYO 
following this, one 
suddenly comes 
upon a long 
straight path, cut 
through dense 
black trees, rising 
steeply from the 
river, and closed 
at the summit by 
a gleaming white 
Korean gateway. 
As one approaches, 
nothing is visible 
but this same gate 
with its arched 
opening in the 
white plastered 
base, surmounted 
by the intricate 
bracketing of its 
curved roof. Long, 
plastered walls 
reach away on 
either hand, and 
above, rise low 
curving roofs of 
gray-green tile; and 
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