Keywords
Architecture
Gardens
An oblong island created in a garden pond. Although it is a fabrication, its appearance seems genuine due to the natural flow of water around it. A reference to katanagareyō apears in the *Sakuteiki 作庭記 (11th century), the oldest extant Japanese treatise on landscape gardening, attributed to Tachibana Toshitsuna 橘俊綱 (1028-94).