The small scenic garden in Japan In small scenic garden, there usually are ponds, plants, Miniature Mountains and so on. These early gardens usually consisted of a pond with an island in the middle. Other features on the shore are seen from the pond area. The background plantings and elements are placed so that they blend into the natural landscape beyond the garden. However, as the Edo period progressed, the building of artificial miniature mountains became popular. These mountains were usually copies of real mountains such as Mount Fuji, which is thought to have been the model for the artificial mountain in the Suizen Temple garden mentioned by Okazaki above. The Miniature Mountains became one sign of the small scenic garden. I have known that both the borrowed and contracted scenery styles of garden came originally from the Asian continent, especially the Chinese Garden. Lots of Chinese garden have Miniature Mountains. Chinese garden if from the Yin and Zhou era of the emergence of limited counting, has been 3000 years of history. The gardens in Japan have been much influenced by that are in China. But as time going by, gardens in Japan have their own characters. For example, Bo Zhuyi probably had such a garden. These city garden models from Tang China were the models and source of Heian gardens , but the Japanese greatly changed them, and allegorized them into gardens of adventure and discovery.