Garden stone terms in Tsukiyama-teizoden described in Landscape Gardening in Japan

Abstract

In this report we introduce the lost meanings of certain garden stone terms which appeared in Tsukiyama-teizôden, using the descriptions found in Landscape Gardening in Japan by Josiah Conder.
Published in 1735, Tsukiyama-teizôden contained many garden stone terms, a number of which were not accompanied by illustrations and whose meanings have accordingly become unclear. Some of these terms also appear in Landscape Gardening in Japan, the first serious study in English of Japanese gardens, published in 1893. Conder consulted older Japanese works including Tsukiyama teizôden, at a time when the meanings of these terms were still well recognized in society. It is accordingly possible to reconstruct some of these meanings using Conder's descriptions.