Gardens and Themes...

One of the great things about grasping the nature of Japanese gardens is that they are consciously themed, and that there are immensely different ways in which to go about theming these gardens - even if altered to incorporate some of the western notions of garden arrangement...  further, these  themings need not be of anything mystical - that is, they can as readily be governed by a love of reality unmitigated by any brashness of fantasy or even 'human hatredness', a notion rarely overtly expressed yet seen in abundance in guise of other manners...  

As noted here, the opening parley is of a treed rock in the midst of a pond [as indicated by the running off falls], with three bare boulders on a shore at the rear of the viewing...  the level down on this is of a pond with the fore arena having three thin trees overlooking both the water and the boundary into another garden, and the falls from this dropping thru a hole in the midst of a dry garden on the level below...   tho these other gardens at best are mere indicated, yet it is not too early to be asking - why the use of three's, and what themes might be seen in these gardens and how do they refer in integrated notions to the rest of the 'Bigger Back yard'...