-=Rock Garden=-
Rock garden is a peaceful garden near one of the teahouses in Edo. When you go there you seem to be removed from everything else going on in the world, and you are in a more calm state of mind. The garden is a tsukiyama garden, which have flowers, artificial hills, small trees, rocks, bridges, and sources of water that usually represent bigger things, like famous places in China or Japan.
The garden is for cats to come to when they are visiting the teahouse, and when they want to be taken away to think or pray, or absorb the world and the good parts about it. Make sure you wash your paws in the tsukubai!
Rock garden is a peaceful garden near one of the teahouses in Edo. When you go there you seem to be removed from everything else going on in the world, and you are in a more calm state of mind. The garden is a tsukiyama garden, which have flowers, artificial hills, small trees, rocks, bridges, and sources of water that usually represent bigger things, like famous places in China or Japan.
The garden is for cats to come to when they are visiting the teahouse, and when they want to be taken away to think or pray, or absorb the world and the good parts about it. Make sure you wash your paws in the tsukubai!
~Vocabulary words of the Garden~
(You might need these!)
Tsukubai - A stone basin and ladle used by guests to wash their hands and rinse out their mouths before entering the teahouse.
Kakei - A bamboo pipe through which water flows. (Yes, we have these in the streams of the garden.)
Sekimori-ishi - A small round stone bound with a straw rope in the shape of a cross. It indicates to guests that the area beyond it is out of bounds of the garden.
Tobi-ishi - stepping stones.
Ishidoro - a stone latern.
