FA 34a Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Sakuteiki, Ise Grand Shrine
Document Summary
When seen from within a room looking out of moving screens, the garden looks like a painting. Scrolls depicting scenes from the tale of genji often depict the interior and exterior (gardens) as being closely related. Early gardens combined elements of trees, rocks, and ponds (ex. Motsuji garden was built during the heian by a nobility (12th century). Song chinese ink paintings emphasized contrast in landscape paintings. Scrolls depicting scenes from the tale of genji show sliding doors with landscape scenes. The use of white pebbles serves as a reference to rocky beaches. White pebbles can also be found at the ise shrine, and serve as a symbol of the purity of the ground at a sacred site. Palace has a pond with buddhist references, specifically the idea of rebirth in the pond of the. Buddhist paradise called the pure land (from the pure land buddhist sect). This pond is five acres large and man-made.
