stasis

stasis

Inside, looking across to the pavilion. The most impressive feat in all of these places is the way the design of the garden is maintained over time, with the feeling that it was arranged and trimmed and presented for the specific current moment, a constant battle against entropy.

The garden is a traditional pond design, but combined with karesansui 枯山水 (“dry landscape”) features, notably the huge and precisely formed cone of white gravel that's said to represent Mount Fuji 富士山, standing by a sea of raked waves. This feature is known as kogetsudai 向月台, often translated as “moon viewing platform”.