hermitage
a garden building, often complete with a hired "hermit" to live there, calculated to raise an appreciation for contemplation in the context of nature.
The Hermitage Foundation Museum & Gardens
7637 North Shore Road
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hermitageA Hermitage is a garden building which looks suited to use by a hermit, usually with a rustic appearance. Houses (eg the Ermitage outside Bayreuth) were designed like monasteries.
The steep country of the Hermitage area in the Adelaide Hills has some beautiful scenery, but this type of country can be a challenging place to build a garden.
In Space and Illusion in the Japanese Garden, Teiji Itoh tells the story of a 15th-century shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, who, returning one day from a hawking expedition, stopped at a tea master's hermitage.
 See also: Flower, Gardening, Natural, Plant, Vista
  
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