Accrding to the description in the chronicle of Muso-Kokushi, compile dtwo years after his death by his first successor, we can find in it a Chinese legend, a clue to the subject of the stone garden at Koin-zan, the upper part of the garden of Saiho-ji.
The legend, Yushusai's meeting witn Ryo-Zasu, shows us that the landscape depicted in the narrative and that of the present Koin-Zan are sa onalogous that the story was fused into Koin-zan, that the landscape of Koin-zan has remained mostly unchanged, and that the name, Koin-zan or the retiring place of the hermit, Ryo-Zasu, at Koshu, was also derived from its story.
The stone garden, the culmination of the design of Koin-zan, therefore, corresponds to the climax scene of its narrative, and stone garden has also remained unchanged since it was made by Muso-Kokushi as above mentioned and as we really see. Consequently, subject of the stone garden is on the climax scene of ‘Yushusai hurring to the acred rock after the image of Ryo-Zasu who had vanished’.
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