Analysis Of The Samurai's Garden By Gail Tsukiyama

The Beauty Within In the novel The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama the characters’ Matsu’s and Sachi’s gardens portray beauty as not only on the surface and below the surface but also through emotions. When Stephen saw Sachi’s garden and how different it was compared to Matsu’s he felt different emotions, “Her garden was a mixture of beauty and sadness, the rocks and stones an illusion of movement”(November 19, 1937). Stephen sees Sachi’s garden and realizes that it’s different from Matsu’s because it is just rocks and stones but he finds beauty in the rocks and stones. Her garden shows what she’s been through; her leprosy connected to the sadness that it makes and the beauty connects to how Stephen sees Sachi now even though she has leprosy.