Official Garden

... Gardens were also used as community squares where meetings and trials were held, but in Japan they were linked to the chief's house from early on and were under his control. The "Cho-tei" gardens, where officials and peasants lined up in front of the emperor, were such gardens, and in the Heian period, as known by the terms kan-tei, koku-tei, and ko-tei (often with the character 'bottom' being used), public institutions such as the Daijokan and kokuga also had gardens where litigation and trials were held. Private deliberations between temple monks were also held in gardens, and the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates also had courtrooms called o-ba. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "kantei" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…　集会や裁判の行われる共同体の広場も庭であったが，日本の場合，それは早くから首長の宅と結びつき，その管理下におかれていた。天皇の前に官人，百姓などが列立した〈朝庭（ちようてい）〉はこうした庭であり，平安時代，官庭，国庭，公庭(底の字が用いられることも多い)などの語によって知られるように，太政官，国衙などの公的機関にも，訴訟のさいの対決，裁判の行われる庭が存在した。寺院の衆徒の僉議（せんぎ）も庭で行われ，鎌倉幕府，室町幕府にも大庭と呼ばれた訴訟の場があったのである。…

※「官庭」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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