埼玉県川口市安行に位置する持宝院の礼拝堂を囲む石庭。４００年という歴史を持った寺院に、この先も長く受け継がれていく庭となるよう取り組んだ。
彩り豊かな９つの巨石３３．３tと小さな石１２．７t、合計４６tもの自然石を仏教の“三業”を暗喩しつつ作為的に構成した。植栽は生長し少しづつ庭を形作ってゆくことを想定して敢えて若い苗木を選んだ。６００年後の木々の姿と庭の風景に思いを馳せる。

三業の石据　2017年 9月

 

This is a stone garden surrounding the worship hall of Jiho-in located in Angyo, Kawaguchi-city in Saitama prefecture. We worked to create a garden for a 400-year-old temple which will be inherited for a long time in the future. The composition with a total of 46 tons of natural stones, consisting of 33.3 tons of nine colorful megaliths and 12.7 tons of small stones, was intentionally metaphorizing the Buddhist “sango” (three karma of body, speech, and mind.)
We allowed ourselves to choose young saplings presuming that they would grow and form a garden little by little. We are giving more than a passing thought to the appearance of the trees and the scenery of the garden 600 years later.

Photographed in 2017