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Book: Landscape Gardening in Japan, 1912
Chapter: Chapter 12. Garden Composition

Other features of Hill Gardens Tsukiyama

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Other features marked in the Plate are:�A, the Garden Well, with a weeping willow beside it; B, a Snow-view Lantern, placed on the island, close to tree No. 2, and in such a position that the light will be reflected in the water; C, the Back Gate of the garden; D, a Boarded Bridge leading to the lake islet; E, a Plank Bridge; F, an arched Stone Bridge with moulded stone parapet; G, a date-shaped stone Water Basin with its sink and drain; H, an ornamental Stone Lantern behind the basin. The stepping stones in the foreground mark the walks from the verandah of the house, the surrounding area consisting of beaten earth.