Tsukiyama (Hill) Garden

This is a karaesanisui garden (dry garden) called Ginshaden or the Sea of Silver Sand. It is meant to be view as the sea, and as the evening moonlight glimmers on the stones, one can get the feeling of a calm sea with the silvery moonlight playing along the surface.

The garden is very labor intensive and required that the walls be reformed and the paths re-raked each day.

The large cone shaped structure (bottom of page) is also snd and said to be a moon-viewing platform. It certainly would reflect them moonlight in the evenings...looking like a big moon itself reflected in the middle of a lake.

The sand sculptures are said to have come into existance during the Edo period.

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