This report presents a study on the yard of Shinden-style residences in terms of the characteristicsof space in Heian era. In the case of the southern yard of Shinden, even in a same ceremony and in a certain residence, the way of standing line of nobles following thier rank is not always same; sometimes it headed to east and sometimes not. Same tendency is found in the case of the yard in front of Tai. These facts are considered very unique for the yard planning of ancient residences, however, following things can be pointed out to explaining this irregular line direction.
1. Because of a pond located at the south of the yard, the main entrance gates were built both east and west sides of the site. It may forced the line of nobles' standing in east-west direction.
2. Because of Chumon-rou joined at the one side of the southern extremity of Tai, the width of the southern yard in front of Tai was relatively small in east-west direction.

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The SHOGANINTEIEN, a garden created toward the end of the EDO period, inherits records in SHOTOKENNOKI written by IMAKITA KOSEN in ANSEI 6 (1859). These records include topics relating to the particular period and on the creator of the garden. The garden was created prior to 1844 (TENPO 15) by GEKKEI NAKATANI, a monk at the time. This kind of information not only arouses another interest in appreciating the garden, but also plays an important role as a historical reference. Furthermore, not only does it set gardening standards for the area, landscaping, and style, it also is thought to be scientifically important. The presenpresentation of this garden will be made with reference to this SHOTOKENNOKI.

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