We’ve decked Murin-an with fresh bamboo.

To greet the new year, we changed Murin-an’s bamboo, which had turned a light brown. We bound the bamboo used for Murin-an’s concave screens (known as “inuyarai”) and its well cover and barrier fences with hemp-palm rope (or “shuro nawa”). Almost of all of this rope was handmade by Murin-an’s head gardener. Its green pipes and notches are now readily visible and bring a fresh new feeling of green to the garden.