Garden Sugaku-in

Sugakuin—likely a reference to Shugakuin Rikyu, the vast imperial villa garden northeast of Kyoto—presented Saito with one of Japan's most complex designed landscapes, where three ponds, multiple teahouses, and borrowed scenery from the surrounding hills were integrated into a composition spanning many hectares. His rendering necessarily compressed this sprawling space, selecting perhaps a single pavilion or shoreline view to stand for the whole.