" Our tour guide will be Andrew Mitchell a local craftsmen who takes care of some of the structural repairs and the design of the buildings here at the hunt let's go meet. -- what are the essential elements of the Japanese garden. We have -- we have water we have atmosphere. We have rock me. Plants now atmosphere this bridges kind of atmosphere it absolutely doesn't seem like a great functional bridge climbing up here isn't there -- In fact has bridges here for viewing only. Preferably from the water and vote at night and then -- through the arch in Elvis bridge you actually restored it right. That's correct we restore this bridge about four years ago it was painted orange in the Chinese style how but. This garden is decidedly Japanese nature and his house well tell us about that what what what's the story Williams Russians have here. This structure originally was I imported for the international exposition golden gate park -- Francisco turn of the century late eighteen hundreds actually this particular question okay. Now all these slopes yours is the original topography -- in here. Yeah mister mister how to trim built this garden. At some mountain. And valley types. Garden style. To deal with the ravine that existed here -- in the idea is it. Europe on a mountaintop looking down into a valley that's right and out of that plays into this shaping of the trees like I mean this is kind of like a large bone times right. This is this is the maple. Is backdrop to buy that highlights on the lawn and then the shadows of the sculpted. Shrubbery behind it -- lots of tricks of scale. So of this Japanese residence then would be representative of the late nineteenth centuries which is yes. Late nineteenth century early twentieth century and is it middle class house. It is actually more representative upper class. And such. It's is fairly typical -- nonsense what's amazing to me is that. It looks totally let contemporary design on these Japanese lines and yet we're looking at something that would have been a hundred years or hundred point five years is it true that the size of -- room is measured in terms of how many Khatami met fit into. Yes it is Bob three by six size of that coming map -- works out to. It configuration that enables us to tell public -- and this what is -- twelve. -- room this is the torment me. Boy that's a beautiful bonsai and I was is that the typical feature in a zen garden. -- I don't know zen garden like we have here but we have a fine collection just beyond its court. Wow this is extraordinary. Speak. It may be fifty by a hundred in here yeah about that now is -- zen garden by definition an enclosed garden with a wall went all the way around. The typically. You get the feeling of enclosure with this and garden whether it's and closed in the area its own or part of a larger complex spike it is here is is the the roof along the wall is that a Japanese thing. Those are those tiles are imported from Japan. Now tell us about the plant material -- I know. We're gonna look at the stone part of it but this is a rather unusual planting here. Yes this is in contrast to be. Dry escape that we have on the other side both in as you can see light. And in. Fine texture of the art these -- ginkgo trees that ginkgo trees yes. It doesn't think in the wild. And then there are huge mounds of shrubbery below them is there some. Some meaning to the waiter clipped and shaped. Well this is very representative. And each. Form half an identity and relationship with both the that the floor or landscape and the objects like rocks and trees and the background -- and what's the plaid material here is it could it be azalea this is azalea. A variety of effects so it's closely clipped. And then you've created these -- shapes and and these rocks are strategically placed right. And then and seasonal balloon you have another incredible dimension of color that just erupts that must have been amazing. You all right then the the the part of it here -- its green isn't. Total contrast to which you see in front of you over here this is off. Really couples and river stones and gravel right right we're approaching a higher level of zen concept here in garden design well tell us more what is this supposed to be representing I -- the whole thing is -- doubt very subtly. And you concede the ridges here. Right this is to represent water flow in and -- with that would be undulating lines out of rapids. And rock play Rivera's Iraq place to interrupt the flow aha. We have so the idea is that. This is like a river. Yeah you could say. That's that's the intention of this particular design you can have a design that conveys the feeling -- Here this is this dimension the rectangular space is ideal for a rivers of it. Does this have to be done every day somebody comes out with a rake. To create these not that often is it basically had to do with how often. They win the plant material accumulates to amount that it obscures. The patterns that they -- in the corridor after -- let's talk about the plant material -- it I'm sure that all these different. Bushes and plants and trees which are closely clipped and and pruned. Have a meeting as do the rocks tell us about."

" The rocks had tend to have more identity and the plants the plants are symbolic of qualities of personality. And relationship but the rocks themselves tend to be more identities personalities of -- of their own in relationship with one another illiterates. Could have rocks pursuing their rocks rocks pursuing other rocks yet. Yeah that's that's that's dead right -- confronting -- rocks or supporting other rocks so we are human relationships that are applied to the positioning of these trucks absolute. As and and now when you get into the water fall. That is not so much of human personification as it is there are there's there's key -- configuration. Or when you get into a river. You might find an alligator absolutely boy that sure looks like collapse Andrew thanks for the tour thank you Bob it's -- pleasure."