A Secret Records on Garden Making of “Sansui Roji Isidate”

Abstract

I introduce an old secret records on garden making of “Sansui Roji Isidate”, a legacy of Asada family in Enjuji Yosii Town Ukiha district Fukuoka Prefecture. The record had been made in 1846 (Kouka 3), at about the end of Edo Era, and it is very interesting as a record on garden making in the regions.
At that time, Asada family had a taxation work of kurume feudal lord. On the front page of this record there is a sign “a secret record of Geiami school”, and the contents are about Shoin-style garden, Sansui Isidate(the slope and water garden), Haraniwa Hiraroji(the flat garden), Naka shima(the outer spot in the pond), Dejima(the jutting spot in the pond), Suimon(the water gate), and Tobiishi(the step stone).