once pristine

josiah conder describes the 'cha-niwa' garden path through which a visitor to the tea house passes in order to prepare for the ritual : 'most tea gardens are remarkable for extreme simplicity combined with an affectation of natural wildness' ... tea gardens 'may be said to assume an air of respectable poverty and decay, accompanied by the most punctilious cleanliness.' : the process path represented by the garden is at once a scene of 'decay' and 'cleanliness' : in the sense that decay is the process of time, decay results in fermentation, rice whose result is alchohol which has properties resulting in sterilization, with time , decay and cleanliness are congruous : [theta] is the hidden variable