Water bamboo thingamabobs...

[Hanakuso]

K,

Does anyone know how they pumped the water thru those water bamboo garden feature things before the days of electric pumps?

u know the ones...

[Taro Toporific]

Does anyone know how they pumped the water thru those water bamboo garden feature things before the days of electric pumps?

u know the ones...

Japanese invented gravity.


(Water fed in through excess from the rice fields, streams, piss ditches, as well as rain water tanks at a higher levels than the fountain. There's a hell of lot water falling on and flowing in Japan.)

[Hanakuso]

piss ditches... shoulda known... It was either that or they were making some poor servant continuously blow water with a straw using digeridoo technique...

[Taro Toporific]

[GomiGirl]

I have always called them tock-tocks cos of the sound they make. Thanks for giving me the correct name Taro-the-wise.

[dimwit]

I just call them targets. As in Oops! sorry for knocking over your target ...er... thingmabob.