Abstract
The AwaKokubunji temple garden was designated cultural assets scenic beauty in 2000. From this designated opportunity, we established "Special places of scenic beauty AwaKokubunji temple garden preservation maintenance examination committee" by cooperation of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Tokushima Prefecture and Tokushima City in 2006. For five years, there was pushed forward garden preservation maintenance and an investigation and maintenance were able to be completed. From the result, many doubtful points of the garden were solved. The AwaKokubunji temple garden made up constitute of rare stone arrangement and garden design. It was thought that cave of stone arrangements was characteristic in this garden. However, this garden was different from popular the cave of stone arrangements. It was thought that the Natural bridge and Mt. Rozan (Lushan) of Chinese landscape were made in this garden by a motif. This report studied relations with Chinese landscape of the Natural bridge and Mt. Rozan about garden constitution and constructing garden design of AwaKokubunji temple garden.
