Name: Smith Residence    Alternate Name:   Address:   Mailing Address:   City: Sydney  State: New South Wales  Postal Code:   Country: AUSTRALIA  Latitude/Longitude: lat=-33.88333; long=151.21667 Find Gardens Nearby Phone:   Fax:   E-Mail:   Contact:   Designer(s): Vladimir Smitta  Contruction Date: 1991  Admission:   Added to JGarden: 10/19/2002  Last Updated: 10/19/2002  Sources: Dr Greg Missingham, University of Melbourne   JGarden Description:

Japan a great stone garden in the sea. Echoes of hoes and weeding, Centuries of leading hill-creeks down To ditch and pool in fragile knee deep fields. Leafy sunshine rustling on a man Chipping a foot-square rough hinoki beam; I thought I heard an axe chop in the woods It broke the dream; and woke up dreaming on a train. It must have been a thousand years ago In some old mountain sawmill of Japan. A horde of excess poets and unwed girls And I that night prowled Tokyo like a bear Tracking the human future Of intelligence and despair.   Gary Snyder   Riprap