In this study, the shape of stepping stones in the Nagoya Castle Ruins and Encampment Sites were investigated aim to understand the design characteristics of the tea gardens of the end of Azuchi-Momoyama era. As results, the morphological features of stepping stones in the Nagoya Castle Ruins and Encampment Sites, the distance between the centers of gravity of each stone tended to be long, but the size of the stones varied depending on the owner and the purpose of use. had been recognized.

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Not a few temples that began in the ancient and medieval times, have the garden ponds, which are differently categorized as the Pure Land Garden of Amida Nyorai, expanded in front of the Buddhist temple. It is conceivable resembling to Kannon Pure Land Mt.Fudaraku. The clearest examples are Ishiyamadera Temple and Natadera Temple, where there is the rocky cliff behind the pond, and a Buddhist hall is set up on the upper surface or in the cave, where the former enshrines Nyoirin- Kannon and the latter enshrines Senju-Kannon. These are none other than the landscape of Mt. Fudaraku, which is described in Avatamsaka Sutra as "the pure mountain on the sea where Bodhisattva can be seen, and fountains and flowing ponds are added."
The stonework, ponds, and waterfalls found at the Tomyoji Temple ruins and the Shurasan ruins, are expanded in the Kamakura period, and were constructed before that. In the former, it is assumed that a Nyoirin-Kannon hall was built on the upper flat surface, and on the latter flat surface, it seems that Juichimen-Kannon was enshrined in the Buddhist environment centered on the Hakusan faith. Similar to the latter, the ruins of Kozanji Temple, which enshrines Juichimen-Kannon on the mountain, have a pond that surrounds the central flat surface being thought to be the ruins of Kannon hall.
The garden pond, which was intended to be the Kannon Pure Land that has continued since the Heian period, was developed at the temples of both the Tendai and Shingon sects, but after the Kamakura period, it expanded to the Zen Buddhist temples of Rinzai and Soto. The Shurasan ruins correspond to this, and in the existing remains, the Eihouji Temple Garden, which was built by Muso Soseki, can be said to be the beginning. It seems that it also functioned as a place for the Kannon-Senbo ritual, which has Kannon as its principal image in Zenrin. And its genealogy continued to the Yudono-ato Garden of Ichijodani Asakurashi ruins during the Sengoku period.

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