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though various interpretations of the garden have been put forth (the rocks 'represent a ti-
ger and her cubs', for example), the garden's ultimate meaning, like that of Zen itself, can-
not be expressed in words.
Kaiyū
Lastly, the
kaiyū,
or varied pleasures garden, features many small gardens with one or
more tea houses surrounding a central pond. Like the stroll garden, it is meant to be ex-
plored on foot and provides the viewer with a variety of changing scenes, many with liter-
this type of garden.