This section of the website will document several projects concerned with the construction of bamboo fences and gates in and around the tea garden.
The first fence was a ryōanji-gaki (pictured) along the lakeside boundary, which I built towards the end of 2007, primarily to hide an existing rather ugly concrete post and chain-link fence which is not ours and which we therefore could not remove.
In 2011, I added a yotsume-gaki as a minimal way of separating the tea garden from the rest of our (essentially Western) garden.
Both fences were largely built using the techniques in Isao Yoshikawa's excellent book Building Bamboo Fences (see References).
Also in 2011, I built a roofed gate - based on my own design but broadly modelled on a photograph of one in Kanazawa, Japan.
All three construction projects are described in detail here. As for the tea house, most of the images will expand if clicked on.