{
  "kind": "building",
  "id": "pagoda",
  "role": "landmark",
  "name": "Three-Storey Pagoda",
  "size": 2,
  "function": "A sacred three-storey pagoda (sanjū-no-tō) that crowns the garden and is seen across the pond from every bank.",
  "shape_and_silhouette": "A square plan on a low granite plinth rises in three square storeys, each a little narrower than the one below, under three deep, broad charcoal tile roofs whose wide eaves overhang far and lift gently at the corners, crowned by a tall bronze finial spire, so it reads at game distance as a slim stack of three dark roof plates with a needle on top.",
  "visual_description": "Each storey is a white plaster box framed by four square vermilion corner posts and one broad vermilion beam under its eave, with one thick stepped vermilion bracket band carrying each roof; the ground storey's front has one pair of dark red doors reached by three broad granite steps, the other three sides are plain, and the top roof rises to a square point carrying a bronze spire with five thick rings and a flame-shaped tip.",
  "shared_traits": [
    "deep charcoal kawara roofs lifting gently at the corners",
    "vermilion frame with white plaster panels",
    "low grey granite plinth"
  ],
  "departure": "The garden's only tall, tiered building: vermilion on every storey and a bronze spire make it the sacred landmark that every other building stays below.",
  "palette": [
    "Weathered stone",
    "Afternoon haze",
    "Red maple"
  ],
  "accent": {
    "name": "Bengara vermilion",
    "hex": "#C24A2E"
  }
}