“Imakagami” told that Toshitsuna-TACHIBANA who was Suri-nokami; the director of Ministry of Construction recommended 3 gardens as the most contemporary ones in 11th century. His recommendation based on 2 criterions; locations and views of gardens. He recommended Ishida-dono, Kaya-no-in, Fushimi-tei, but he rejected Toba-dono which was gardened by Emperor.
This report is second part of the study on these gardens which were recommended by Toshitsuna-TACHIBANA. Former part of this study which have been published on the former number of this jornal clarified the criteions of his recommendation according to the comparison of those gardens, and also verified the phisycal differences of views and locations of them.
This latter half of the study refers to the political backgrounds in which he lived, and also refers to another meaning of his recommendation.
The consequences of this report are as follows.
1. He was the typical lord who advanced to many countries in turn. In his youth, he had the chance to get the post of lord under the help of his father; Yorimichi-Fujiwara who was the chief adviser to the Emperor. And in the latter half of his life, he succeeded to get higher positions on account of both his relatives and the enormous wealth.
2. There were 3 or 4 great political groups which were organized under the blood relations in the end of 11th century. First was Imperial family, second was Fujiwara clan which was the family of the chief adviser to Emperor, third was Genji which was another great family, and forth were the powers against Fujiwara clan. Every group tried to get the blood relations with T. TACHIBANA on account of his great wealth.
3. Not only his real father and brother had some political power as the chief adviser to Emperor, but also he had the intimate relations with Emperor Shirakawa's family and another great clan (Genji) through the relatives on his wife's side.
4. T. TACHIBANA sometimes held banquets in his Villa Fushimi-tei to conducut one sect of “waka” poetry. And also he had a good sense in making gardens. Emperor Shirakawa set a high value on his those abilites. On the other hand, many enterprises; both constructions and maintenances of palaces that were conducted by Emperor, depended on the financial abiloties of Zuryou class including T.TACHIBANA. Therefore, Emperor could not find any suitable and effective answer toward T. TACHIBANA's words. Both T. TACHIBANA and Emperor were the representatives of great political groups in the end of 11th century, and the conversation which was exchaged between them had a lot of political coloring. His recommendation that was based on his own abilities of both garden making and finances might have one of the meaning of the tactics to restrain the great political power of Imperial family.

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