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JAPANESE TEA
CEREMONY
The dual purpose of the
ceremony is to create a
spirit of modesty and to
express deep hospitality
among tea guests.
Stepping stones leading
to the teahouse are
designed to slow down
guests, to decrease the
pace of ordinary life.
The very low entrance
requires guests to stoop,
a gesture of humility
that places everyone on
an equal social footing.
Inner Garden
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Apart from a long-
gone Chinese gate,
everything else remains
the same as when the
Mito family used this
Chinese-style inner
garden as a sanctum
and place of study.

Iris Garden
Tsutenkyo
7 8
Bridge
Planted in the
Spanning a deep ravine marsh surrounding the
and supported on piles, zigzag bridge, purple
the bridge (above) is a and white Japanese and
replica of a structure rabbit-ear irises bloom
in Tofuku-ji, a temple during the June rainy
com plex in Kyoto. Its season. An ancient
reflec tion in the shallow system of sluice gates and
river amplifies its size. dikes irrigates the marsh.
Plum
0
Orchard
Korakuen
and Yatsu-hashi
3 0 An attractive plum
8 orchard (above) just to
7 5 the north of the pond
1 6 comes into fragrant
2 white blossom in early
Entrance Koishikawa Korakuen February. Nearby, a
Garden
zigzag, eight-span
4 9 yatsu-hashi bridge runs
through a small marsh.

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