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Stroll garden

Also called stroll gardens, kaiyū-shiki, kaiyu-shiki

A Japanese garden of the Edo period, kaiyū-shiki teien, in which a path leads round a large pond past a sequence of composed scenes, as at Katsura and Kenroku-en.

See also: Shakkei

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Gardens and Landscape.

A feature of Japanese garden architecture.

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Stilted arch · Stoa · Stomion · Stretcher · Stupa · Stupi · Stylobate · Sukiya