This morning, Garden Curator Sadafumi (Sada) Uchiyama placed a shizume mono in the foundation of the Village House slab, under the new Naguri door location. The shizume mono is a sacred piece of stone, given to the Garden by the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine—a Shinto shrine in the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Priests from this shrine …