The current was guided alongside the buildings to make waterfalls and yarimizu, and an atmosphere of fields such as at Sagano and Murasakino was created in the tsuboniwa between the shinden and the tsuinoya, with gently undulating mounds called nosuji, planted wild flowers, and insects, to make a landscape.
これを建物近くに流して滝・遣水とし、寝殿と対屋の間などのつぼ庭には嵯峨野や紫野などの野の趣を移し、野筋といわれるゆるやかな起伏を作り、野草を植えて虫を放ち前栽とする。