for a large machiya , there is a small garden , called tsubo-niwa , in the middle of the tori-niwa . 大規模な町家の場合、途中に坪庭と呼ばれる小規模な庭がある。
the toki no fuda was a board that was placed in a small garden in the seiryoden (literally " limpid cool hall " ) to show time . 時の簡（ときのふだ）は、時刻を示すために清涼殿殿上の小庭に立てて置いた簡（ふだ）である。
jodo sect gardens such as this are referred to as chisen kaiyushiki teien (lit . pond stroll style gardens ) as they were designed to allow people to walk around the pond but the small garden at renge-ji temple is a chisen kanshoshiki teien designed to be appreciated from the shoin . こうした浄土宗的な庭園は池の周囲を巡り歩くことを想定して作庭されることから池泉回遊式と呼ばれるが、蓮華寺の庭園は規模も小さく、書院からの鑑賞を旨とした池泉鑑賞式の庭園である。
suiin-ken house ' s (literally , " shaded eaves for sleeping " ) small garden , that zenami made with a landscape painting style , was praised highly in the " inryo-ken house diary " , however , technical developments of garden designs during the muromachi period were greatly attributed to landscape gardeners . 善阿弥が造った山水画風の睡蔭軒の小庭は『蔭涼軒日録』にて絶賛されているが、室町時代の作庭技術の発達には山水河原者が多く関与している。
in the published drawings , lines representing views and the fields of visions from the major points in a garden are indicated , and he added tsuboniwa (a small garden made between buildings or as a part of a building ) and gakeniwa (a garden on a cliff ) to the three conventional demarcation of japanese gardens , namely tsukiyama (artificial hill ), hiraniwa (plain garden ), roji , and cited nageire-do of the sanbutsu-ji temple as a typical example of gakeniwa . 掲載された図面には園内要所からの眺望視界線が記入されているほか日本庭園の分類を従来の築山、平庭、露地の3つに壷庭と崖庭を加えていて、崖庭の好例として三仏寺投入堂を挙げている。
