Also written 魚子, 斜子. Lit. "fish-roe."
1　A pattern of small dots thought to resemble fish-roe, and…

Also urokogaki 鱗垣, gonomegaki 互の目垣. A fence made from semi-circular pieces of bamboo or metal. Bamboo…

Lit. "Narihira sleeve fence." A common type of rustic see-though sleeve fence, sukashi sodegaki 透袖垣. The frame,…

Lit. "Nebukawa stone." A type of andesite found near Nebukawa 根府川 Village near Odawara 小田原 in modern Kanagawa Prefecture.…

Lit. "second stone."

1　A stone placed outside a house, particularly a *…

Lit. "peeping bridge." A type of arched, wooden garden bridge that ends abruptly in the water just after beginning its…

Lit. "peeping fence." A type of *sodegaki 袖垣 with one or more…

Also called ajirogaki 網代垣 or ajiro takegaki 網代竹垣. A type of wickerwork fence, especially popular in…

Lit. "eightfold fence." A type of double-screen sleeve fence *sodegaki 袖垣 in…

Also read yakugi. The allocation of shrubbery in a garden, particularly applied to trees which set the mood of a…

Lit. "roles of branches." The branches of a flower or tree that are given a name based on their "role" in the structure of…

Lit. "mountain stone." A generic name for stones found or quarried in the mountains. Unlike sea stones *…

Lit. "gardens in the style of Japanese painting." Also called sakuteikiryū 作庭記流 (gardens in the lineage of the…

A fence made of widths of bleached bamboo spaced about 45 cm apart and held in place by bark. This type of fence is used in…

Lit. "water course." An archaic term for a shallow, curving garden stream. The term, found in the 11th-century garden manual…

Lit. "the character eight 八 yatsu." The practice of propping three or four posts around a newly replanted tree. The…

Lit. "whistle shape." A type of water basin *chōzubachi 手水鉢 which resembles…

Lit. "four-eyed fence." A generic name for a bamboo lattice fence. The poetic name derives from the quadrant of lozenge…

Lit. "bow and arrow branches." The arrangement of a tree trunk and branches in which one branch grows up from the trunk then…