Edo Period gardens in Japan, (1603-1867). The seat of Tokugawa Shogunate was established in Edo, now called Tokyo, where all the daimyos (feudal lords) built their mansions, each with spacious gardens. Cha-no-yu still continued to be tolerated by the Shoguns and the continued peace augmented luxury, and even among the common people the garden became a great fashion. One noticeable change, which took place during this period, was that the actual design and execution of gardens gradually passed from the hands of "tea-men" and priests to those of professionals called niwa-shi, or gardeners, who dealt in garden materials, such as rocks, stone lanterns, trees, etc.
[The Japanese tea ceremony (??, chado, or sado, or chanoyu - "the way of tea") is a traditional ritual based on Taoism (Daoism) and influenced by Zen Buddhism in which powdered green tea, or matcha (??), is ceremonially prepared by a skilled practitioner and served to a small group of guests in a tranquil setting. Wikipedia, 2007]
