Emerging now from the Imperial Pathway, the walker crosses a small bridge and is invited to look to his left towards a miniature cape.  Standing on this bluff is the Sumiyoshi Pine.  Here the viewer comes, experientially, into contact with yet another element of design that the Japanese pay close attention to:  perspective.  As the pine pulls the eye towards it, the building and pond in the background confuse the viewer's sense of relative distance.  The eye does not know whether or not to view the scene from a distance, like a picture, or to enter into it, and  sit beneath the pine.