The garden between the street and the tea house. Rikyu took the name from the Lotus Sutra, where those who escape the burning house take their seats on dewy ground.

It is a passage and not a garden to be viewed: ordinary trees, plain stones, moss. Asked to describe the ideal one, Rikyu answered only thick green moss, all pure and sunny warm.

There are two. An outer roji, sanded, where the guests wait; an inner roji, mossy, past the middle gate. It ends at a door too low to pass upright.

SPACE to set out

T straight to the room