Natural scenery of a particular place; environment.
Whenever possible, temples of the Zen 禅 sect during the medieval period were
built on sites that would provide scenery of natural beauty without any need to
create such an environment artificially. Example: Eihouji 永保寺 (1313) in Gifu prefecture,
situated in a hilly region, has two buildings, the Kannondou 観音堂 (1314) and the
Kaisandou 開山堂 (1352), that face a pond over which a curved wooden bridge is constructed
with an arbor for scenery viewing. |