funatsuki-ishi　舟着石

KEY WORD :　architecture / gardens

Lit. A boat landing stone. A large, flat stone used as a kind of dock in large pond gardens where boating took place. Even in small ponds where no boating was possible, these stones were sometimes placed along the shore as an allusion to boating.

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