Osaka

借景

借 / borrow
景 / scenery

1931

MAIN TOWER
reconstructed

GARDEN
re-landscaped

LENDER ____________________

BORROWER __________________

same hand.

A view cannot borrow
what it commissioned.

借景

STANDING ORDER

• raise one keep
• reserve one opening
• remove whatever contests it
• establish distance

The pond accepts
a second copy,

then returns
only the lower half.

CAPTURE ALIVE

• found beyond the boundary
• left where found
• built into the answer

At the right margin,
the only qualifying scenery
enters without invitation:

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unframed
unreflected
unlent

借景

borrowed

still standing.