This book showcases twenty-eight of Japan's finest gardens, drawn from every period of the country's history. There is Ryoan-ji, Japan's most famous garden, with its enigmatic composition of rocks and gravel. There is Saiho-ji, where moss covers the undulating ground between the trees so thickly that the place has long been known as koke-dera, or the Moss Garden, and Daichi-ji, where an extraordinary treasure ship is fashioned from clipped azaleas.