A naturally-lit interior view shows the traditional tatami mat floors, bamboo ceiling, and shoji paper-and-wood sliding doors of Geppa-ro tea pavilion, and looks across the garden pond to Shoi-ken tea pavilion at Katsura Imperial Villa, in the southwest a

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