Abstract
In this report, I had picked up the hojo garden of the Kencho-ji temple in Kamakura city, and had mentioned about the historic background of the time that the garden was constructed and the several modifications made during past years. As a first step, I chose to re-organize the existing references of the Edo era thathave been preserved in the Kencho-ji temple. Then, I considered of the ways of modifications that anyone had not provided appropriate thoughts as yet.
As a result, the following points were made clear. One is that the major modification was made such as the size-reduction of the pond at the same time of the reconstruction of the adjacent temple building in the Horeki-period (1751-56). The other point is that the garden had acquired the complete shape as the Zengarden by the modification conducted by the gardener named Sotei in the Meiwa-period (1769). The former change was conducted by the ´Sanzaemon´that seems to have had considerable knowledge about both architecture and landscape. Here, the term landscape is used to describe not just landscape designing but civil engineering aspects of garden construction.
