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Submitted: September 19, 2009
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Photography / Urban & Rural / Gardens, Parks & Cemeteries

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Uchi-Roji: inner-garden path

Taken at Portland Japanese Gardens, Portland Oregon.

"The tea garden consists of a pathway (roji) that leads to Kashintei (Flower-Heart Tea House), connects inner and outer gardens, separated by a simple bamboo gate. The outer garden path (soto-roji) leads guests to the machiai (waiting place), until the host greets them and invites them to enter the inner garden path (uchi-roji). Here guests pause at the tsukubai (arrangement of stones around a water basin) to rinse their hands and mouth, symbolically removing the dust of the real world behind. The path through the gardens represents a journey that is so important to the creation of the proper state of mind for the tea ceremony that the word roji has become synonymous with tea gardens themselves."
-- www.japanesegarden.com (Portland Japanese Gardens)

I actually got out to take some pictures today and tried to forget about my ludicrous amount of schoolwork. This is the perfect place to do so