FUJIWARA no Shoshi, the second consort of the Emperor Toba, made a garden expressing an image of Gokuraku Jodo (the Amida Pure Land) in Hokongoin Temple when she was at the height of her prosperity.
また、鳥羽天皇の中宮、藤原璋子が法金剛院に極楽浄土を再現する庭園を造立し、栄華を極めた。