Hanashi Niwa

Hanashi Niwa or Story Gardens are one of the most fabulous creations in Rokugan. The first to create such a garden was an Agasha shugenja, but other clans quickly picked up the practice (most notably the Lion and Crane). The story gardens are like a hedge maze, but the corridors are not linear. As someone enters the garden they notice how all the twisting tree limbs, every blossomin flower and every smooth stone has been deliberately detailed. Each garden is devoted to a particular story, and the viewer is told the story as they walk the twisting paths of the garden. One of the most impressive gardens in Rokugan is situated in Shiro Mirumoto, telling the story of Mirumoto's life until he entered the Shadowlands on the Day of Thunder. (Dragon p. 31)