There was an aspect that it would touch the tradition of Shinden-zukuri style (architecture representative [characteristic] of a nobleman's residence in the Heian period) garden and the flow of rock arrangement (in Japanese landscape gardening) in Shoin (reception room) garden, and the garden in Katsura Imperial Villa exists as the example of such gardens.
ここには寝殿造風な庭園の伝統や書院庭の石組みの流れと触れあう面があったがこうした庭園の例としては桂離宮の庭園が現存する。