The present work is an exposition of the rules and theories of the Art of Landscape Gardening in Japan, as followed from ancient to modern times, so far as they can be gathered from a thorough study of native authorities, added to personal observation of the best remaining examples. A treatise of the kind, aiming at some degree of completeness, must necessarily include much that is rudimentary and by no means exclusively peculiar to Japanese design; but the writer's task is partly accomplished if he succeeds in showing that beneath the quaint and unfamiliar aspect of these Eastern compositions, there lie universally accepted Art truths.
