# Kaiyū Strolling Garden (回遊式庭園)

> The daimyo strolling garden, where scenery is edited into view with every step along the path: pond at center, bridges, hills and teahouses — movement itself as the designed medium, space with a time axis.

- IndexStyle No.400 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/kaiyu-garden
- Kind: Style · Family: Garden Styles · Era: Edo period–
- Mood: Calm, Exhilaration, Luxury
- Color cues: #e9e6dd / #67635d / #171615 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

- Views that change as you walk
- Pond-centered composition
- Hide-and-reveal staging
- Famous scenery in miniature

## Best used for

- Comparing primary sources and canonical works
- Extracting principles that transfer to other media

## Research method

This entry records a historical style; derive the treatment from its sources rather than a fixed recipe:

- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process

## What to avoid

Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.

## Application checklist

Before calling a piece an application of this style, check it against the defining characteristics:

- [ ] Views that change as you walk
- [ ] Pond-centered composition
- [ ] Hide-and-reveal staging
- [ ] Famous scenery in miniature
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **Shakkei (Borrowed Scenery) (借景)** — Borrowing scenery: mountains and forests beyond the garden taken into the composition, framed by hedges and trees — the boldest idea of the crop, designing with landscape one cannot own. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/shakkei
- **Sukiya Style (数寄屋)** — The light, informal residential style born of tea-ceremony aesthetics: slender posts, bark-edged timber, earthen walls and shoji light that let material nature and empty space become the quality of the room. Katsura became modernism's pilgrimage site. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/sukiya

## Further study

- Kenroku-en, Kōraku-en and Kairaku-en
- Koishikawa Kōraku-en
- the design of sequence

## Reference works

- 兼六園（CC BY-SA 4.0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kenrokuen%20garden%204.jpg
- 兼六園の徽軫灯籠（CC BY 2.0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kenrokuen%20Garden%2C%20Kanazawa%20(53621201294).jpg

## Source of record

- 兼六園（石川県） — https://www.pref.ishikawa.jp/siro-niwa/kenrokuen/

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/kaiyu-garden
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/kaiyu-garden/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compose_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)

## 日本語

園路を歩くごとに景が編集されて現れる大名庭園の形式。池を中心に橋・築山・茶屋を配し、移動そのものを設計する——時間軸を持つ空間デザインの到達点。

特徴: 歩くと変わる景／池泉中心の構成／見え隠れの演出／名所の縮景
注意: 表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。