The object of this paper is to try to point out the importance of Joeijiu27s temple garden (常栄寺庭園) within the development of the Japanese garden from the pondgarden to the independent Karesansui garden (dry landscape garden). It is very difficult to establish the position of this garden, because whether the exact time of construction and the designer is unknown. Sesshu, a famous Japanese painter, is said to have created the garden in the middle of the Muromachi period, but there is no precise record which could prove this theory. Nevertheless, the garden of the Joeiji temple is of utmost interest, because the garden has two equal garden sections (a pond garden section and a dry landscape garden section). Therefore, regarding the evolution of the Japanese garden, Joeiji garden is assumed to have been built in a time before the independent Karesansui style was developed, because it contains elements both of the dry landscape garden style and the pond garden style. But, a comparison of the two independent Karesansui gardens at Fundain (芬陀院庭園) and Ryoanji (竜安寺庭園) temples showed that, according to records like ouchikejisho (大内家辞書), kudaikan souchoki (君台観左右帳記), gaun nikkenroku (臥雲日件録), inryokennichiroku (蔭涼軒日録), hekisannichiroku (碧山日録) and others, Fundainu27s independent dry landscape garden must have been constructed before the gardens at Joeiji and Ryoanji. The fact that the Joeiji garden which has two equal garden sections came into existence after the independent dry landscape garden had been developed in Kyoto seems to be a contradiction. However, this phenomenon can be explained by the fact that Kyoto once again became the cultural center of Japan and therefore the development and popularization of the independent dry landscape garden style occured faster in the capital than in the provinces. This presumption can explain, why after 1460 in Yamaguchi a garden with an equal pond garden-and dry landscape garden section was constructed, alt
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