yoshiki garden 吉城園, nara

Just outside bustling crowds of Todaiji temple in Nara, Yoshiki-en offers a quiet refuge with a pond, moss garden, and tea ceremony garden. Nearby, the approach to Kasuga Taishi shrine is flanked by hundreds of mossy ishi-doro stone lanterns

Yoshiki Garden pond, Nara
Tea gardens favor irregularly spaced stepping stone placement, designed to slow the walking pace and help the tea drinker transition to a more deliberate, mindful state.
Ishigaki (Dry stone wall) in tanizumi style
Tea garden of Yoshiki-en
informal stone path into the tea garden at Yoshiki-en
stone lanterns near Kasuga Taishi, Nara
A pathway lined with numerous stone lanterns covered in moss at a Japanese shrine.
entrance to Kasuga Taishi shrine, featuring dry stone walls in Tanzumi "Valley" style