Sanbō-in

[3] Sanbō-in is also a noteworthy illustration of a landscape garden which is designed for viewing from a specific perspective within a building.

As laid out in the Momoyama period, the garden remains one of the finest uses of the "fortuitous crane," the "tortoise" and the "isle of eternal youth."

These poetic terms identify specific ways in which stones and ponds are poised in a prescribed, esoteric relationship.

[5] In 1598, Toyotomi Hideyoshi helped redesign the garden before his famous cherry blossom-viewing party.

[1] The karamon was either transferred from Fushimi castle or built there at the same time,[6] and the main drawing room (表書院 omote shoin), another National Treasure, was finished shortly before Hideyoshi's death in September of that year.