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context: gardens > strolling gardens
General Description
The key conceptual difference that came to the fore at the start of the Edo Period (from 1600AD) was designing gardens for people to walk around in, especially to circumnavigate by a defined route. Designers thought in terms of composing a series of scenes: they combined elements from all the earlier styles, but often added representations or symbols of famous or mythical places, creating something like a national tour in miniature. Another addition in this phase is strange topiary, which is highlighted in the upcoming page on Daichi-ji.