The interplay of this two verbs


The following sentence: この庭にある大きい石と池は、富士山と海を **イメージして** 造られました。

This イメージ **して** followed by 造られました irritates me. I know of several specific
patterns where て form is directly succeeded by another verb like 星が見えてきた but I
don't know of any such case with 造る. I've little idea how to understand this
phrase.




There's no grammatical problem here. I would translate this as

> This garden's large rock and the lake were made to give the impression of Mt
> Fuji and the sea.

Even in English there is a mixture of passive and active, but there's nothing
awkward or ungrammatical about this.

I wouldn't lump this in with constructions like 星が見えてきた。 The てくる form there is
a fixed grammatical form. There are other uses of the て-form of verbs which
can express reason or purpose. For example,

> 一所懸命{いっしょうけんめい}勉強{べんきょう}して試験{しけん}を合格{ごうかく}した。
>
> Having studied hard, I passed the exam.




There's no grammatical problem here. I would translate this as

> This garden's large rock and the lake were made to give the impression of Mt
> Fuji and the sea.

Even in English there is a mixture of passive and active, but there's nothing
awkward or ungrammatical about this.

I wouldn't lump this in with constructions like 星が見えてきた。 The てくる form there is
a fixed grammatical form. There are other uses of the て-form of verbs which
can express reason or purpose. For example,

> 一所懸命{いっしょうけんめい}勉強{べんきょう}して試験{しけん}を合格{ごうかく}した。
>
> Having studied hard, I passed the exam.

