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context: gardens > strolling gardens

Katsura

This is a good illustration of symbolising famous places: the pebble peninsula here references the famous wooded spit of land called Ama-no-Hashidate. (A painting of same by Sesshu)

sideways: Katsura in architecture

backwards: Daichi-ji

forwards: Joju-en