Tofukuji is not Zen Buddhist, but this small garden across the bridge at Tofukuji exhibits some of the Zen garden characteristics. There is a pond, although it is rather narrow (and hard to tell that is not a stream from the picture). It does have a stone bridge, although the far side is not an island, but the edge of forest at edge the temple complex. If the island is supposed to symbolize the land of enlightenment, the further side of this gardne is equally inaccessible as an island, since there are no pathways that lead to it.

This garden seems substantially more cultivated that Tenryuji’s garden. There are, in my opinion, too many bushes, which lead to visual crowding. Because of the crowding, the sculpture aspect cannot be very prominent, although since the garden is fairly uniform in shape there would not have been much of that anyway.