Such an example may well be classed as a rock-garden. As rocks play very important roles in the gardens of Nippon, most of them may in a way be called rock-gardens. However, examples such as the one just described rightly belong to a distinct category and to the same class belongs the garden of Shinjuan and that of the Daitokuji adjoining it in which are arranged fifteen rocks in the favourite groups of seven, five and three, adorned with low growing shrubs. Each is a narrow strip of ground bordered on the further side by a low hedge which serves to connect the narrow garden with the avenue of pine-trees of Kamo, miles away, and to the further distant view of Mount Hiyei. The main garden of Daitokuji, too, is similar in nature, utilising the same background, there being a group of rocks in shape and form suggesting a waterfall at one end of a fairly large rectangular flat piece of ground covered with sand.
[Daitoku-ji (???) is a Rinzai Buddhist temple located in Kyoto, Japan. The temple complex has the mountain-name Ryuho-zan (???), literally meaning "dragon treasure mountain." It was established in 1319 by Shuho Myocho (????) who is also called Daito Kokushi (????). Wikipedia 2007] [Shinjuan or Shinju-an is a subtemple of Daitoku-ji, with a dry garden, karesansui)
