Tsukiyama teizōden 築山庭造伝

Lit. "Commentary on Landscape Gardens."

1　A mid-Edo book written by garden designer Kitamura Enkin 北村援琴. Printed using woodblock in 1735, the first 2 volumes of this three-volume work synthesize several earlier garden manuals including Tsukiyama sansuiden 築山山水伝, Sansui narabi ni nogata no zu 山水并野形図, Sagaryū niwa kohō hiden no sho 嵯峨流庭古法秘伝之書, and Niwatsubo chikei tori-zu 庭坪地形取図. Enkin added some original discussion of tea gardens *chaniwa 茶庭, an indication of the growing popularity of this garden type. Volume three included black-and-white illustrations by Fujii Shigeyoshi 藤井重好 of famous temple gardens, as well as the gardens from the contemporary residences of wealthy merchants and farmers. After the publication of Tsukiyama teizōden, the types of residential gardens shown there became models for later gardens, ushering in the orthodoxy of late Edo garden design.

2　Also called Tsukiyama teizōden kōhen 築山庭造伝後編. In 1828, Akizato Ritō 秋里籬島 published a supplement to Tsukiyama teizōden (see 1 above) using the same title. Now referred to as part two, Ritō's supplement classified nine types of gardens (including *tsukiyama 築山, hiraniwa 平庭, and *roji 露地) and further divided them into three style *shin-gyō-sō 真行草. Ritō, author of the Miyako rinsen meisho-zue 都林泉名所図絵 (Illustrations of Famous Places and Gardens of Kyoto) of 1799, was himself a garden designer, and his choice of gardens and comments on them reflect the values of his own design lineage. Ritō's illustrations to part two of Tsukiyama teizōden formed the basis for the lithographs in J. Conder's Landscape Gardening in Japan of 1893.