This illustration represents a lake-garden which is remarkable for its extreme artificiality and for a preponderance of redundant detail. Nearly all the trees in this design consist of a particular kind of pine, trimmed in the tama-tsukuri style,� a method by which each tuft of foliage is cut into a disc-like form. The borders of the irregular lake are crowded with numerous stones and boulders, with shrubs, water-plants, and grasses, planted between them. Though there is constant repetition of similar detail in this design, the arrangement is distinguished by considerable variety. The level walk in front of the residence has a row of stepping stones and a granite lantern; a few turfed hillocks, planted with the ever-recurring pine, and a summer-house, may be seen in the background. A bamboo fence and roofed gateway mark the position of the garden entrance. It is said that the extremely artificial treatment displayed in the trees and rockeries of this example is particularly characteristic of the style of landscape gardening as developed on the Western coast of Japan.
