Description
A sub-temple of the Myoshinji Temple complex, Taizo-in has two gardens of note, as well as a famous screen painting by Josetsu, the founder of the sumie ink school of painting in Japan. The painting is entitled 'Catching a Catfish with a Gourd.'
Of the temple's two gardens, the smaller is of more importance, it being a Zen encapsulation of a universe, reduced and abstracted for meditation. The larger garden, but still quite small, is a semi-stroll garden; it has not been designed to be viewed from a fixed point, yet you do not have the freedom to walk around as you do at, say, Katsura Rikyu.