This illustration has been given to show the style of a common city teahouse garden, of the poorest class, in which a few simple features, artistically arranged, have been made to do duty as ornament. The upper view shows a rivulet crossed by a bridge constructed of two fine slabs of granite which overlap and are supported in the middle on a wooden trestle built from the bed of the stream. A stone lantern of the Standard class, another of the Legged class, and a few large rocks and dwarf pine-trees, constitute the chief features of this portion of the grounds. The lower illustration shows the rusticated stone well and pebbled drain-bed, with the forked trunk of a tree to carry the well-pully; also rows of stepping stones leading to the different rooms, a screen fence, and a few old trees. This garden belongs to the class called "Tea-gardens," which have been specially described in "Landscape Gardening in Japan."
