The Object of This Study
The Tenryu-ji Garden lies in the western part of the master's room there and has the wandering paths, among artificial hills and ponds against the Kameyama (a tortoise-shaped hill) and the fai ther scenery of the Arashiyama. This study is to theoretically expound the intention and expression of this gardening in accordance with the “Muso-kokushi-goroku” (=the Analects of Muso-kokushi).
The Essentials of This Garden
This garden belongs to the Tenryu-ji of the Rinzai sect and was made to express the fundamental doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism. Muso-kokushi. founded this temple for the repose of war victims, and the repentance of murder or with the prayer of the blessing and construction of the new state, regarding it as a memorial monastery of the Emperor Go-daigo.
The subject of this gardening means the promotion of the tathagata-Zen (=the highest supreme Zen), based on the “Song of Enlightenment”, the conception of it shows the construction of the ideal state, based on the Vimalakirti-nirdesa-sutra; and theformation of its expresses the elevation of oneself by aiming at the attainment of enlightenment, based on the Case 49 of the “Hekigan-roku”-Sansho Asks, Seppo What a Golden Fish Going through a Net Eats, and further the salvation of sentient beings, from suffering, based on the Case 52 of the same-A Monk Regards JOshu as a Single Bridge, not as a Stone One.

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In order to calculate the carrying capacity of lawns-area, it is important to know user, s behaviour. Therefore in this paper, we attempted to investigate the utilizing condition of lawns-area in more detail. The results of this investigation may be summarized as follows.
1. It was found that the average number of the user of lawns-area which was the aim of this study were counted about one-third of the people who came and used lawns-area of Shinjuku-Gyoen Park.
2. The peak of the user of lawns-area is in April and May when lawns area sprouted, then June, September and October follow this.
It become clear that the number of the user of lawns-area and yields of lawns were contrary to each other.
3. On sunday, user is five or six times on roughly average as many on weekday (twice as minimum and ten times as maximum).
On saturday, it shows similar utilizing tendency as weekday.
4. The user's movements are devided into some items according to their characteristics. Average movements are 52% for restings, 36% for idling and 12% for sporting.
5. The ratio of respective use is clearly different between grow-up person and children. The ratio of sporting use is high and the one of resting and idling is low in case of children.
6. In fine weather the percentage of resting is much higher than the one of cloudy weather.
7. Groups of grow-ups spent 109 minutes (mean) on the lawns-area, the items are 63 minutes for resting, 32 minutes for sporting and 14 minutes foridling. A rendezvousing couple stayed 80 minutes (mean), the items are 75 minutes for resting, 5 minutes for idling. Groups of children stayed 89 minutes (mens), the items are 39 minutes for resting, 23 minutes for sporting and 27 minutes for idling.
8. It became clear that the 38 different species of active recreation were played on the lawns-area.
9. It becomes clear that 2 species of movements to form 70% of the whole sports on the lawns-area. One is composed of “running and walking” and other is composed of “throwing and hitting”.

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