The site composition and garden of Shikiba hospital were analyzed, which have consistently maintained as excellent hospital environment and have been done the therapeutic activity since 1950's. The ward, the director mansion, and the garden were planned on the heights enclosed by Pine grove were composed and developed with treatment activity respecting patient's human nature based on broad and deep findings of Ryuzaburo Shikiba cultivated by world wide travels, readings, various paintings and folk crafts.

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The rock garden of the Ryoanji temple in Japan is a representative Japanese garden. However, its time built and paysagiste is unknown. It is hard to predict its specific concept, since there have been many theories of the design concept. This paper reports on the evidence to the conclusion of that the design depicted Mt. Wutai in China. Mt Wutai has been believed to be a dwelling of immortals since ancient times and also been associated with the worship of the bodhisattva Manjusri in Buddhism. Japanese Buddhist priests visited Mt Wutai around the 9th century. They brought back various goods such as the statues of Buddha and Buddhist sutras to Japan and they influenced works of art in Japan, including the image of Mt Wutai Manjusri. This drawing depicts Mt Wutai making its appearance, resembling that of the rock at the center of the garden of Ryoanji extremely well. So much, that it is obvious that the rock garden of the Ryanji temple is a depiction of Mt Wutai.

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In Japanese secondary institutions, gardening education had started at the two agricultural schools, Tokyo-furitu-engeigakko and Osaka-furitu-nogakko, in the early 1910s. In other secondary institutions, girl's higher schools and middle schools, the gardening education started in the 1930s.
1) Description on Gardening in Secondary Agricultural School Textbooks: In the textbooks for secondary agricultural schools, the first description on gardening appeared in the Recent Floriculture Textbook (Saikin-kakiengei-kyokasyo) published in 1930 by Mori and Matunaga. This description consists of Japanese and European garden styles, hedge and lawn. By 1942, seven floricultural textbooks for secondary agricultural school were published. Four of these textbooks had descriptions of gardening.
2) Descriptions on Gardening in the Vocational Subject Textbooks for Higher Girl's Schools: There were two kinds of the textbooks of vocational subject for higher girl's schools. One of them was an agriculture-horticulture textbook. And the other was a horticulture or floriculture textbooks. In 1914, the first descriptions on gardening appeared in the Girl's Agriculture-Horticulture Textbook (Jyosi-nougei-kyokasyo) volume one by Minosuke Tsujikawa. By 1942, ten agriculture-horticulture textbooks for higher girl's schools were published. Four of these textbooks had the descriptions of gardening. During 1913 to 1941, twenty-five horticulture textbooks for higher girl's schools were published. Nine of these had the descriptions on gardening. The first description on gardening appeared in the Girl's Horticulture New Textbook (Jyosi-engei-sin-kyokasyo) published in 1929 by Nobukatu Marumo.
3) Descriptions on Gardening in the Work Subject Textbooks for Middle School: During 1929 to 1939, eleven textbooks of work subject for middle schools were published. Five textbooks of these had descriptions on gardening. The first description on gardening appeared in the Middle Horticulture New Textbook (Cyuto-engei-sin-kyokasyo) published in 1931 by Mizuno, Kida and Asami.
In 1943, under the Second World War, the Imperial ordinances of secondary education institutions were issued by the government. In this new ordinance (Cyuto-gakko-rei), the textbooks of secondary education institutes had to use textbooks holding the copyright by the Ministry of Education. The descriptions on gardening or landscape architecture disappeared from the textbooks of higher girl's school and middle school. The descriptions on landscape architecture appeared only in the horticulture textbooks for secondary agricultural school.

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