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三忌石

three shunned stones


A description for three ways of using stones to avoid, found in Musōryū chitei, a gardening textbook published in the mid-Edo period. According to that work, these are called "poor stones," "diseased stones," and "dead stones."


Japanese Garden Dictionary: A Glossary for Japanese Gardens and Their History
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