Follow-up to Jingjing and Willow's posts

It looks as if the shapes, which constitute the space, come from the Japanese Hiragana characters, (Observe closely the green colored ones) which are indeed derived from simplified Chinese characters.

The Japanese language, in written form, is basically made up of borrowed Chinese characters, and the Hiragana and Katakana characters. Above is a list of all the Hiragana and Katakana characters and their roots in Chinese characters.

The Hiragana characters alone usually do not have meanings but are rather phonetic symbols and work as letters to compose meanings or words, sometimes together Chinese characters. Because of this, I doubt if the shapes of the model would make, or be based on a narrative...

As to the curves from the Chinese garden architecture, most typically are those from those graceful residence gardens in the Yangzi-delta region, such as Suzhou and Wuxi, a couple of hundred kilometers from the city of Shanghai; whereas in northern China, they are not at all that much used, so the gardens there are rather strict and square.

The most successful “curved” garden architecture (Well, one of those anyway) is The Pavilion of Surging Waves in Suzhou (appro. 960 dc, built as privat residence of the nobility), followed by The Humble Administrator's Garden, also in Suzhou, and The Lingering Garden in Wuxi.