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  • Japanese Tea Garden Bridge - Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park originally spanned about one acre. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape architect Makoto Hagiwara created a permanent Japanese garden as a gift for posterity.  Hagiwara became caretaker of the property, pouring all of his personal wealth and creative talents into creating a garden of perfection.  Hagiwara expanded the garden to its current size of approximately 5 acres. He and his family lived on the grounds for many years until 1942 when they were forced to evacuate their homes and put into internment camps. Today, the Japanese Tea Garden endures as one of the most popular attractions at Golden Gate Park, featuring an arched drum bridge, pagodas, stone lanterns, stepping stone paths, native Japanese plants, serene koi ponds and a zen garden.
    golden-gate-japanese-garden-7.jpg
  • Japanese Tea Garden Bridge - Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park originally spanned about one acre. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape architect Makoto Hagiwara created a permanent Japanese garden as a gift for posterity.  Hagiwara became caretaker of the property, pouring all of his personal wealth and creative talents into creating a garden of perfection.  Hagiwara expanded the garden to its current size of approximately 5 acres. He and his family lived on the grounds for many years until 1942 when they were forced to evacuate their homes and put into internment camps. Today, the Japanese Tea Garden endures as one of the most popular attractions at Golden Gate Park, featuring an arched drum bridge, pagodas, stone lanterns, stepping stone paths, native Japanese plants, serene koi ponds and a zen garden.
    golden-gate-japanese-garden-2.jpg
  • Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park originally spanned about one acre. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape architect Makoto Hagiwara created a permanent Japanese garden as a gift for posterity.  Hagiwara became caretaker of the property, pouring all of his personal wealth and creative talents into creating a garden of perfection.  Hagiwara expanded the garden to its current size of approximately 5 acres. He and his family lived on the grounds for many years until 1942 when they were forced to evacuate their homes and put into internment camps. Today, the Japanese Tea Garden endures as one of the most popular attractions at Golden Gate Park, featuring an arched drum bridge, pagodas, stone lanterns, stepping stone paths, native Japanese plants, serene koi ponds and a zen garden.
    golden-gate-japanese-garden-5.jpg
  • Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park originally spanned about one acre. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape architect Makoto Hagiwara created a permanent Japanese garden as a gift for posterity.  Hagiwara became caretaker of the property, pouring all of his personal wealth and creative talents into creating a garden of perfection.  Hagiwara expanded the garden to its current size of approximately 5 acres. He and his family lived on the grounds for many years until 1942 when they were forced to evacuate their homes and put into internment camps. Today, the Japanese Tea Garden endures as one of the most popular attractions at Golden Gate Park, featuring an arched drum bridge, pagodas, stone lanterns, stepping stone paths, native Japanese plants, serene koi ponds and a zen garden.
    golden-gate-tea-3.jpg
  • Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park originally spanned about one acre. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape architect Makoto Hagiwara created a permanent Japanese garden as a gift for posterity.  Hagiwara became caretaker of the property, pouring all of his personal wealth and creative talents into creating a garden of perfection.  Hagiwara expanded the garden to its current size of approximately 5 acres. He and his family lived on the grounds for many years until 1942 when they were forced to evacuate their homes and put into internment camps. Today, the Japanese Tea Garden endures as one of the most popular attractions at Golden Gate Park, featuring an arched drum bridge, pagodas, stone lanterns, stepping stone paths, native Japanese plants, serene koi ponds and a zen garden.
    golden-gate-tea-1.jpg
  • Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park originally spanned about one acre. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape architect Makoto Hagiwara created a permanent Japanese garden as a gift for posterity.  Hagiwara became caretaker of the property, pouring all of his personal wealth and creative talents into creating a garden of perfection.  Hagiwara expanded the garden to its current size of approximately 5 acres. He and his family lived on the grounds for many years until 1942 when they were forced to evacuate their homes and put into internment camps. Today, the Japanese Tea Garden endures as one of the most popular attractions at Golden Gate Park, featuring an arched drum bridge, pagodas, stone lanterns, stepping stone paths, native Japanese plants, serene koi ponds and a zen garden.
    golden-gate-tea-7.jpg
  • Japanese Gardener Pruning a Tree
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  • Japanese Gardener - Rev Takafumi Kawakami is the vice-abbot at Shunkoin Temple and teaches classes about Zen culture and meditation and serves as a bridge between Eastern and Western cultures. Here Rev Takafumi is raking the temple's Zen Garden. The Garden of Bolders, or Sazareishi-no-niwa, is the main garden of Shunkoin. The theme of the garden is the Great Shrine of Ise in Mie Prefecture. The Great Shrine of Ise is the head shrine of all Shinto shrines in Japan. This garden houses a shrine to Toyouke-no-omikami, a goddess of agriculture.
    japanese-gardener-1.jpg
  • Japanese Stone Lanterns and Moss at Hokokuji Temple in Kamakaura - Ishidoro lanterns are usually used to decorate Japanese gardens, shrines and temples rather than for providing light, although occasionally they are lit up with candles inside during festivals.   Ishidoro Lanterns were introduced to Japan via China in the 6th century.  The earliest lanterns, found only in temple grounds, were designed to hold the flame representing Buddha.  Light  helps us overcome the darkness of ignorance. Ishidoro were originally used at temples, gardens and shrines.  Around the 16th century stone lanterns were adopted  and placed in the gardens of teahouses.
    japanese-stone-lantern.jpg
  • Koishikawa Korakuen Garden is one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period..Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature, using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-korakuen-7.jpg
  • Togetsukyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden  - Koishikawa Korakuen Garden is one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period..Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature, using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-korakuen-2.jpg
  • Korakuen is a Japanese landscape garden located in Okayama and is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, along with Kenrokuen and Kairakuen. Korakuen was built in 1700 by Ikeda Tsunamasa, lord of Okayama. In 1884, ownership was transferred to Okayama Prefecture and the garden was opened to the public. The garden suffered severe flood damage in 1934 and during World War II bombing in 1945, but has been restored based on Edo period paintings and diagrams.
    korakuen-7.jpg
  • Korakuen is a Japanese landscape garden located in Okayama and is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, along with Kenrokuen and Kairakuen. Korakuen was built in 1700 by Ikeda Tsunamasa, lord of Okayama. In 1884, ownership was transferred to Okayama Prefecture and the garden was opened to the public. The garden suffered severe flood damage in 1934 and during World War II bombing in 1945, but has been restored based on Edo period paintings and diagrams.
    korakuen-5.jpg
  • Korakuen is a Japanese landscape garden located in Okayama and is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, along with Kenrokuen and Kairakuen. Korakuen was built in 1700 by Ikeda Tsunamasa, lord of Okayama. In 1884, ownership was transferred to Okayama Prefecture and the garden was opened to the public. The garden suffered severe flood damage in 1934 and during World War II bombing in 1945, but has been restored based on Edo period paintings and diagrams.
    korakuen-3.jpg
  • Koishikawa Korakuen Garden is one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period..Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature, using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-korakuen-9.jpg
  • Korakuen is a Japanese landscape garden located in Okayama and is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, along with Kenrokuen and Kairakuen. Korakuen was built in 1700 by Ikeda Tsunamasa, lord of Okayama. In 1884, ownership was transferred to Okayama Prefecture and the garden was opened to the public. The garden suffered severe flood damage in 1934 and during World War II bombing in 1945, but has been restored based on Edo period paintings and diagrams.
    korakuen-4.jpg
  • Tsutenkyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden is one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period..Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature, using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-korakuen-5.jpg
  • Korakuen is a Japanese landscape garden located in Okayama and is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, along with Kenrokuen and Kairakuen. Korakuen was built in 1700 by Ikeda Tsunamasa, lord of Okayama. In 1884, ownership was transferred to Okayama Prefecture and the garden was opened to the public. The garden suffered severe flood damage in 1934 and during World War II bombing in 1945, but has been restored based on Edo period paintings and diagrams.
    korakuen-2.jpg
  • Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden features the typical elements of a Japanese landscape garden including a pond and man-made hills symbolizing the ocean, lakes and mountains of the real world and walking trails to enjoy the garden from various perspectives..During the Edo Period, the garden was built on land reclaimed from Tokyo Bay and served as the residence of various feudal lords and government officials.
    kyu-shiba-rikyu-garden-03.jpg
  • Tsutenkyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden -  one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period..Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature, using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill..
    tsutenkyo-bridge-2.jpg
  • Tsutenkyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden- one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period..Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature, using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    tsutenkyo-bridge-1.jpg
  • Shorazon Hill at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period..Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature, using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-korakuen-10.jpg
  • Tsutenkyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden -  one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period. Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-tsutenkyo-amber.jpg
  • Tsutenkyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden -  one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period. Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-tsutenkyo-5.jpg
  • Tsutenkyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden -  one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period. Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-tsutenkyo-3.jpg
  • Tsutenkyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden -  one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period. Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-tsutenkyo-10.jpg
  • Tsutenkyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden -  one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period. Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-tsutenkyo-08.jpg
  • Tsutenkyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden -  one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period. Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-tsutenkyo-2.jpg
  • Tsutenkyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden -  one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period. Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-tsutenkyo-11.jpg
  • Tsutenkyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden -  one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period. Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-tsutenkyo-1.jpg
  • Tsutenkyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden -  one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period. Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-tsutenkyo-09.jpg
  • Kuhachi-ya Cottage at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden is one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period..Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature, using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-korakuen-6.jpg
  • Tsutenkyo Bridge at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden -  one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period..Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature, using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill..
    tsutenkyo-bridge-3.jpg
  • Koishikawa Korakuen Garden is one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period..Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature, using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-korakuen-12.jpg
  • Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden features the typical elements of a Japanese landscape garden including a pond and man-made hills symbolizing the ocean, lakes and mountains of the real world and walking trails to enjoy the garden from various perspectives..During the Edo Period, the garden was built on land reclaimed from Tokyo Bay and served as the residence of various feudal lords and government officials.
    kyu-shiba-rikyu-garden-01.jpg
  • Koishikawa Korakuen Garden is one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period..Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature, using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-korakuen-4.jpg
  • Shorazon Hill at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest and most beautiful Japanese landscape gardens. It was built by close relatives of the Tokugawa Shogun in the early Edo Period..Like most traditional Japanese gardens, Koishikawa Korakuen attempts to reproduce famous landscapes from China and Japan in miniature, using a pond, stones, plants and a man made hill.
    koishikawa-korakuen-1.jpg
  • Korakuen is a Japanese landscape garden located in Okayama and is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, along with Kenrokuen and Kairakuen. Korakuen was built in 1700 by Ikeda Tsunamasa, lord of Okayama. In 1884, ownership was transferred to Okayama Prefecture and the garden was opened to the public. The garden suffered severe flood damage in 1934 and during World War II bombing in 1945, but has been restored based on Edo period paintings and diagrams.
    korakuen-1.jpg
  • Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden features the typical elements of a Japanese landscape garden including a pond and man-made hills symbolizing the ocean, lakes and mountains of the real world and walking trails to enjoy the garden from various perspectives..During the Edo Period, the garden was built on land reclaimed from Tokyo Bay and served as the residence of various feudal lords and government officials.
    kyu-shiba-rikyu-garden-07.jpg
  • Sanyo-so Japanese garden, designed by renowned Kyoto craftsman Jihei Ogawa beautifully reflects four seasons: weeping cherry trees in spring, iris in summer, maple in autumn, as well as Japanese plum in winter. The garden permeates the vast ryokan compound from the original Azumaya building  which is the best place to view the entire garden. The  buildings all reflect traditional Japanese building methods designed by famed architect Togo Murano.
    sanyo-so-02.jpg
  • Korakuen is a Japanese landscape garden located in Okayama and is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, along with Kenrokuen and Kairakuen. Korakuen was built in 1700 by Ikeda Tsunamasa, lord of Okayama. In 1884, ownership was transferred to Okayama Prefecture and the garden was opened to the public. The garden suffered severe flood damage in 1934 and during World War II bombing in 1945, but has been restored based on Edo period paintings and diagrams.
    korakuen-garden-02.jpg
  • Korakuen is a Japanese landscape garden located in Okayama and is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, along with Kenrokuen and Kairakuen. Korakuen was built in 1700 by Ikeda Tsunamasa, lord of Okayama. In 1884, ownership was transferred to Okayama Prefecture and the garden was opened to the public. The garden suffered severe flood damage in 1934 and during World War II bombing in 1945, but has been restored based on Edo period paintings and diagrams.
    korakuen-garden-01.jpg
  • Rev Takafumi Kawakami is the vice-abbot at Shunkoin Temple and teaches classes about Zen culture and meditation and serves as a bridge between the Eastern and Western cultures. Here Rev Takafumi is raking the temple's Zen Garden. The Garden of Bolders, or Sazareishi-no-niwa, is the main garden of Shunkoin. The theme of the garden is the Great Shrine of Ise in Mie Prefecture. The Great Shrine of Ise is the head shrine of all Shinto shrines in Japan.
    japanese-gardener-2.jpg
  • Japanese Maple and Autumn Colors at Koto-In Garden, Daitokuji Temple, Kyoto.  Koto-in was established in 1601 by Tadaoki Hosokawa. He was a famous warrior under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, studied Zen under the Daitoku-ji abbot, Seigan, and was a distinguished disciple of tea master, Sen no Rikyu. Koto-in is home to two famous tea houses, Shoko-ken and Horai.
    koto-in-garden-3.jpg
  • Seiryu-en Garden was laid out in 1965. Parts of the former Suminokura Ryoi residence in Kawaramachi Nijo, as well as its garden stones and trees, were used to create the gardens. The garden was named Seiryu-en by the then Kyoto mayor Gizo Takayama. The eastern half of this eclectic garden is a lawn-covered Western-style garden, and the western half is a Japanese chisen-kaiyu strolling pond garden, which also incorporates two teahouses, making the garden aesthetically pleasing. Waraku-an Teahouse was moved to this location as an existing teahouse from the former Suminokura Ryoi residence in Kyoto, and expanding it by combining it with another teahouse. The latter was gifted by the Omotesenke school of tea modeled after the famous teahouse Zangetsu-tei “dawn moon pavilion” named because warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is said to have enjoyed the dawn moon from the building. Koun-tei, the other teahouse, was also moved from the former Suminokura Ryoi residence.
    Seiryu-en-2.jpg
  • Seiryu-en Garden was laid out in 1965. Parts of the former Suminokura Ryoi residence in Kawaramachi Nijo, as well as its garden stones and trees, were used to create the gardens. The garden was named Seiryu-en by the then Kyoto mayor Gizo Takayama. The eastern half of this eclectic garden is a lawn-covered Western-style garden, and the western half is a Japanese chisen-kaiyu strolling pond garden, which also incorporates two teahouses, making the garden aesthetically pleasing. Waraku-an Teahouse was moved to this location as an existing teahouse from the former Suminokura Ryoi residence in Kyoto, and expanding it by combining it with another teahouse. The latter was gifted by the Omotesenke school of tea modeled after the famous teahouse Zangetsu-tei “dawn moon pavilion” named because warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is said to have enjoyed the dawn moon from the building. Koun-tei, the other teahouse, was also moved from the former Suminokura Ryoi residence.
    Seiryu-en-3.jpg
  • Seiryu-en Garden was laid out in 1965. Parts of the former Suminokura Ryoi residence in Kawaramachi Nijo, as well as its garden stones and trees, were used to create the gardens. The garden was named Seiryu-en by the then Kyoto mayor Gizo Takayama. The eastern half of this eclectic garden is a lawn-covered Western-style garden, and the western half is a Japanese chisen-kaiyu strolling pond garden, which also incorporates two teahouses, making the garden aesthetically pleasing. Waraku-an Teahouse was moved to this location as an existing teahouse from the former Suminokura Ryoi residence in Kyoto, and expanding it by combining it with another teahouse. The latter was gifted by the Omotesenke school of tea modeled after the famous teahouse Zangetsu-tei “dawn moon pavilion” named because warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is said to have enjoyed the dawn moon from the building. Koun-tei, the other teahouse, was also moved from the former Suminokura Ryoi residence.
    Seiryu-en-4.jpg
  • Seiryu-en Garden was laid out in 1965. Parts of the former Suminokura Ryoi residence in Kawaramachi Nijo, as well as its garden stones and trees, were used to create the gardens. The garden was named Seiryu-en by the then Kyoto mayor Gizo Takayama. The eastern half of this eclectic garden is a lawn-covered Western-style garden, and the western half is a Japanese chisen-kaiyu strolling pond garden, which also incorporates two teahouses, making the garden aesthetically pleasing. Waraku-an Teahouse was moved to this location as an existing teahouse from the former Suminokura Ryoi residence in Kyoto, and expanding it by combining it with another teahouse. The latter was gifted by the Omotesenke school of tea modeled after the famous teahouse Zangetsu-tei “dawn moon pavilion” named because warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is said to have enjoyed the dawn moon from the building. Koun-tei, the other teahouse, was also moved from the former Suminokura Ryoi residence.
    Seiryu-en-5.jpg
  • Seiryu-en Garden was laid out in 1965. Parts of the former Suminokura Ryoi residence in Kawaramachi Nijo, as well as its garden stones and trees, were used to create the gardens. The garden was named Seiryu-en by the then Kyoto mayor Gizo Takayama. The eastern half of this eclectic garden is a lawn-covered Western-style garden, and the western half is a Japanese chisen-kaiyu strolling pond garden, which also incorporates two teahouses, making the garden aesthetically pleasing. Waraku-an Teahouse was moved to this location as an existing teahouse from the former Suminokura Ryoi residence in Kyoto, and expanding it by combining it with another teahouse. The latter was gifted by the Omotesenke school of tea modeled after the famous teahouse Zangetsu-tei “dawn moon pavilion” named because warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is said to have enjoyed the dawn moon from the building. Koun-tei, the other teahouse, was also moved from the former Suminokura Ryoi residence.
    Seiryu-en-1.jpg
  • Hyogo Prefectural Museum Garden is located in the birthplace of Hyogo Prefecture. The first Hyogo Prefectural Government Building complete with its own Japanese garden and jail behind the building - a restoration of the first Hyogo Prefectural Office. The dry landscape garden in the first prefectural office building called Hygotottsu In the Nara period, Gyoki was involved in the construction. It is essentially a replica of the First Prefectural Government Building based on old drawings and paintings.  In front of the old prefectural office, there is a Japanese garden composed of pine tree, gentle moss, artificial hills make up a dry landscape garden with many garden stones that represent the islands of the Seto Inland Sea leading to Hyogo.  The five islands of moss and stonework represent the five countries: Settsu, Harima, Tajima, Tamba, and Awaji) that make up Hyogo Prefecture. Garden stones and gravel from Hyogo Prefecture, such as Rokko granite, were used for the stones, and the moss covering the islands, which is relatively resistant to tides.
    Hyogo-City-Museum-Garden-5.jpg
  • Shoden Eigan-in Garden - Shoden Eigen-in is a sub-temple of Kennin-ji, which is the head temple in the Rinzai Kenninji Sect of Zen Buddhism. Shoden Eigen-in was formed upon the merger of multiple temples.  The teahouse Joan overlooks the Japanese garden and was built as a structure for Japanese-style tea ceremony, in which the Tea Master prepares tea and offers the associated traditional hospitality to invited guests. Oda Urakusai built the teahouse early in the 17th century when restoring Shoden-in Temple. He became a Christian and according to one theory, the name was derived from his baptismal name. The teahouse Joan in Shoden Eigen-in today is a replica - the original was moved to Inuyama City in Aichi Prefecture, where it still stands. The teahouse in Shoden Eigen-in today was newly built in 1996 as a replica of the original teahouse before it was sold.
    Shoden-Eigen-in-5.jpg
  • Shoden Eigan-in Garden - Shoden Eigen-in is a sub-temple of Kennin-ji, which is the head temple in the Rinzai Kenninji Sect of Zen Buddhism. Shoden Eigen-in was formed upon the merger of multiple temples.  The teahouse Joan overlooks the Japanese garden and was built as a structure for Japanese-style tea ceremony, in which the Tea Master prepares tea and offers the associated traditional hospitality to invited guests. Oda Urakusai built the teahouse early in the 17th century when restoring Shoden-in Temple. He became a Christian and according to one theory, the name was derived from his baptismal name. The teahouse Joan in Shoden Eigen-in today is a replica - the original was moved to Inuyama City in Aichi Prefecture, where it still stands. The teahouse in Shoden Eigen-in today was newly built in 1996 as a replica of the original teahouse before it was sold.
    Shoden-Eigen-in-4.jpg
  • Hyogo Prefectural Museum Garden is located in the birthplace of Hyogo Prefecture. The first Hyogo Prefectural Government Building complete with its own Japanese garden and jail behind the building - a restoration of the first Hyogo Prefectural Office. The dry landscape garden in the first prefectural office building called Hygotottsu In the Nara period, Gyoki was involved in the construction. It is essentially a replica of the First Prefectural Government Building based on old drawings and paintings.  In front of the old prefectural office, there is a Japanese garden composed of pine tree, gentle moss, artificial hills make up a dry landscape garden with many garden stones that represent the islands of the Seto Inland Sea leading to Hyogo.  The five islands of moss and stonework represent the five countries: Settsu, Harima, Tajima, Tamba, and Awaji) that make up Hyogo Prefecture. Garden stones and gravel from Hyogo Prefecture, such as Rokko granite, were used for the stones, and the moss covering the islands, which is relatively resistant to tides.
    Hyogo-City-Museum-Garden-3.jpg
  • Hyogo Prefectural Museum Garden is located in the birthplace of Hyogo Prefecture. The first Hyogo Prefectural Government Building complete with its own Japanese garden and jail behind the building - a restoration of the first Hyogo Prefectural Office. The dry landscape garden in the first prefectural office building called Hygotottsu In the Nara period, Gyoki was involved in the construction. It is essentially a replica of the First Prefectural Government Building based on old drawings and paintings.  In front of the old prefectural office, there is a Japanese garden composed of pine tree, gentle moss, artificial hills make up a dry landscape garden with many garden stones that represent the islands of the Seto Inland Sea leading to Hyogo.  The five islands of moss and stonework represent the five countries: Settsu, Harima, Tajima, Tamba, and Awaji) that make up Hyogo Prefecture. Garden stones and gravel from Hyogo Prefecture, such as Rokko granite, were used for the stones, and the moss covering the islands, which is relatively resistant to tides.
    Hyogo-City-Museum-Garden-4.jpg
  • Hyogo Prefectural Museum Garden is located in the birthplace of Hyogo Prefecture. The first Hyogo Prefectural Government Building complete with its own Japanese garden and jail behind the building - a restoration of the first Hyogo Prefectural Office. The dry landscape garden in the first prefectural office building called Hygotottsu In the Nara period, Gyoki was involved in the construction. It is essentially a replica of the First Prefectural Government Building based on old drawings and paintings.  In front of the old prefectural office, there is a Japanese garden composed of pine tree, gentle moss, artificial hills make up a dry landscape garden with many garden stones that represent the islands of the Seto Inland Sea leading to Hyogo.  The five islands of moss and stonework represent the five countries: Settsu, Harima, Tajima, Tamba, and Awaji) that make up Hyogo Prefecture. Garden stones and gravel from Hyogo Prefecture, such as Rokko granite, were used for the stones, and the moss covering the islands, which is relatively resistant to tides.
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  • Shoden Eigan-in Garden - Shoden Eigen-in is a sub-temple of Kennin-ji, which is the head temple in the Rinzai Kenninji Sect of Zen Buddhism. Shoden Eigen-in was formed upon the merger of multiple temples.  The teahouse Joan overlooks the Japanese garden and was built as a structure for Japanese-style tea ceremony, in which the Tea Master prepares tea and offers the associated traditional hospitality to invited guests. Oda Urakusai built the teahouse early in the 17th century when restoring Shoden-in Temple. He became a Christian and according to one theory, the name was derived from his baptismal name. The teahouse Joan in Shoden Eigen-in today is a replica - the original was moved to Inuyama City in Aichi Prefecture, where it still stands. The teahouse in Shoden Eigen-in today was newly built in 1996 as a replica of the original teahouse before it was sold.
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  • Shoden Eigan-in Garden - Shoden Eigen-in is a sub-temple of Kennin-ji, which is the head temple in the Rinzai Kenninji Sect of Zen Buddhism. Shoden Eigen-in was formed upon the merger of multiple temples.  The teahouse Joan overlooks the Japanese garden and was built as a structure for Japanese-style tea ceremony, in which the Tea Master prepares tea and offers the associated traditional hospitality to invited guests. Oda Urakusai built the teahouse early in the 17th century when restoring Shoden-in Temple. He became a Christian and according to one theory, the name was derived from his baptismal name. The teahouse Joan in Shoden Eigen-in today is a replica - the original was moved to Inuyama City in Aichi Prefecture, where it still stands. The teahouse in Shoden Eigen-in today was newly built in 1996 as a replica of the original teahouse before it was sold.
    Shoden-Eigen-in-6.jpg
  • Hyogo Prefectural Museum Garden is located in the birthplace of Hyogo Prefecture. The first Hyogo Prefectural Government Building complete with its own Japanese garden and jail behind the building - a restoration of the first Hyogo Prefectural Office. The dry landscape garden in the first prefectural office building called Hygotottsu In the Nara period, Gyoki was involved in the construction. It is essentially a replica of the First Prefectural Government Building based on old drawings and paintings.  In front of the old prefectural office, there is a Japanese garden composed of pine tree, gentle moss, artificial hills make up a dry landscape garden with many garden stones that represent the islands of the Seto Inland Sea leading to Hyogo.  The five islands of moss and stonework represent the five countries: Settsu, Harima, Tajima, Tamba, and Awaji) that make up Hyogo Prefecture. Garden stones and gravel from Hyogo Prefecture, such as Rokko granite, were used for the stones, and the moss covering the islands, which is relatively resistant to tides.
    Hyogo-City-Museum-Garden-2.jpg
  • Shoden Eigan-in Garden - Shoden Eigen-in is a sub-temple of Kennin-ji, which is the head temple in the Rinzai Kenninji Sect of Zen Buddhism. Shoden Eigen-in was formed upon the merger of multiple temples.  The teahouse Joan overlooks the Japanese garden and was built as a structure for Japanese-style tea ceremony, in which the Tea Master prepares tea and offers the associated traditional hospitality to invited guests. Oda Urakusai built the teahouse early in the 17th century when restoring Shoden-in Temple. He became a Christian and according to one theory, the name was derived from his baptismal name. The teahouse Joan in Shoden Eigen-in today is a replica - the original was moved to Inuyama City in Aichi Prefecture, where it still stands. The teahouse in Shoden Eigen-in today was newly built in 1996 as a replica of the original teahouse before it was sold.
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  • Hokukuji Temple Tea House - Traditional Japanese architecture is designed around specific purposes. The chashitsu literally tea room is one special type of architecture, usually very small and made of natural materials: wood, plaster, reed tatami floords, and shoji paper windows. The special architectural style that developed for chashitsu is called sukiya style or specifically sukiya zukuri. It has come to indicate a style of designing public facilities and private homes based on tea house aesthetics. Features of chashitsu typically include a tokonoma alcove; subdued colors, and the size is ideally 4.5 tatami mats.
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  • Oikeniwa Garden Kyoto Gyoen - Kyoto Imperial Palace  was a palace where successive emperors lived and conducted their political affairs for over 500 years from the Nanbokucho period to the beginning of the Meiji period. It is currently open to the public as a facility managed by the Imperial Household Agency.  Oikeniwa Garden was used as a place to meet shoguns and feudal lords during the Edo period, and the pond strolling style that can be seen. The garden began in the early Edo period, with a sand beach in front of the building, creating the atmosphere of a Japanese dynastic garden as well as multiple stone bridges. This garden has the scale of a feudal lord garden from the Edo period.
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  • Oikeniwa Garden Kyoto Gyoen - Kyoto Imperial Palace  was a palace where successive emperors lived and conducted their political affairs for over 500 years from the Nanbokucho period to the beginning of the Meiji period. It is currently open to the public as a facility managed by the Imperial Household Agency.  Oikeniwa Garden was used as a place to meet shoguns and feudal lords during the Edo period, and the pond strolling style that can be seen. The garden began in the early Edo period, with a sand beach in front of the building, creating the atmosphere of a Japanese dynastic garden as well as multiple stone bridges. This garden has the scale of a feudal lord garden from the Edo period.
    Kyoto-Gyoen-16.jpg
  • Oikeniwa Garden Kyoto Gyoen - Kyoto Imperial Palace  was a palace where successive emperors lived and conducted their political affairs for over 500 years from the Nanbokucho period to the beginning of the Meiji period. It is currently open to the public as a facility managed by the Imperial Household Agency.  Oikeniwa Garden was used as a place to meet shoguns and feudal lords during the Edo period, and the pond strolling style that can be seen. The garden began in the early Edo period, with a sand beach in front of the building, creating the atmosphere of a Japanese dynastic garden as well as multiple stone bridges. This garden has the scale of a feudal lord garden from the Edo period.
    Kyoto-Gyoen-15.jpg
  • Oikeniwa Garden Kyoto Gyoen - Kyoto Imperial Palace  was a palace where successive emperors lived and conducted their political affairs for over 500 years from the Nanbokucho period to the beginning of the Meiji period. It is currently open to the public as a facility managed by the Imperial Household Agency.  Oikeniwa Garden was used as a place to meet shoguns and feudal lords during the Edo period, and the pond strolling style that can be seen. The garden began in the early Edo period, with a sand beach in front of the building, creating the atmosphere of a Japanese dynastic garden as well as multiple stone bridges. This garden has the scale of a feudal lord garden from the Edo period.
    Kyoto-Gyoen-12.jpg
  • Oikeniwa Garden Kyoto Gyoen - Kyoto Imperial Palace  was a palace where successive emperors lived and conducted their political affairs for over 500 years from the Nanbokucho period to the beginning of the Meiji period. It is currently open to the public as a facility managed by the Imperial Household Agency.  Oikeniwa Garden was used as a place to meet shoguns and feudal lords during the Edo period, and the pond strolling style that can be seen. The garden began in the early Edo period, with a sand beach in front of the building, creating the atmosphere of a Japanese dynastic garden as well as multiple stone bridges. This garden has the scale of a feudal lord garden from the Edo period.
    Kyoto-Gyoen-08.jpg
  • Oikeniwa Garden Kyoto Gyoen - Kyoto Imperial Palace  was a palace where successive emperors lived and conducted their political affairs for over 500 years from the Nanbokucho period to the beginning of the Meiji period. It is currently open to the public as a facility managed by the Imperial Household Agency.  Oikeniwa Garden was used as a place to meet shoguns and feudal lords during the Edo period, and the pond strolling style that can be seen. The garden began in the early Edo period, with a sand beach in front of the building, creating the atmosphere of a Japanese dynastic garden as well as multiple stone bridges. This garden has the scale of a feudal lord garden from the Edo period.
    Kyoto-Gyoen-07.jpg
  • The Katsura Imperial Villa or Katsura Rikyu as it is known in Japanese is a villa in the western suburbs of Kyoto. It is one of Japan's most important large-scale cultural treasures. Its gardens are a masterpiece of Japanese gardening, and the buildings perfect examples of Japanese architecture at its best. The Katsura Imperial Villa is a good example of the essence of Japanese traditional design. The Villa combines principles usually used in early Shinto shrines and merges it with the esthetics and philosophy of Zen Buddhism. It provides an invaluable window into the villas of princes of the Edo period. The palace formerly belonged to the prince of the Hachij -no-miya family. The Imperial Household Agency now maintains and administers.
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  • The Katsura Imperial Villa or Katsura Rikyu as it is known in Japanese is a villa in the western suburbs of Kyoto. It is one of Japan's most important large-scale cultural treasures. Its gardens are a masterpiece of Japanese gardening, and the buildings perfect examples of Japanese architecture at its best. The Katsura Imperial Villa is a good example of the essence of Japanese traditional design. The Villa combines principles usually used in early Shinto shrines and merges it with the esthetics and philosophy of Zen Buddhism. It provides an invaluable window into the villas of princes of the Edo period. The palace formerly belonged to the prince of the Hachij-no-miya family. The Imperial Household Agency now maintains and administers.
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  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
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  • Seiryuen is a cluster of teahouses connected by Japanese gardens - The tea room known as Seiryo is said to have been the seat of the Higashiyama strongly Grand Tea Ceremony held during the Taisho period. The main components of the tea room built by Gengensai Seichu, the 11th generation of the Urasenke school, in the Tokugawa family's territory in Edo were relocated. This is a monumental building that gave birth to one of the trends in early modern tea culture. Another teahouse is a hermitage-style tea room built in accordance with ancient history, as it was the hiding place of Nagako Kinoshita, a Momoyama poet and nephew of Kita Mandokoro, the legal wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
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  • Oikeniwa Garden Kyoto Gyoen - Kyoto Imperial Palace  was a palace where successive emperors lived and conducted their political affairs for over 500 years from the Nanbokucho period to the beginning of the Meiji period. It is currently open to the public as a facility managed by the Imperial Household Agency.  Oikeniwa Garden was used as a place to meet shoguns and feudal lords during the Edo period, and the pond strolling style that can be seen. The garden began in the early Edo period, with a sand beach in front of the building, creating the atmosphere of a Japanese dynastic garden as well as multiple stone bridges. This garden has the scale of a feudal lord garden from the Edo period.
    Kyoto-Gyoen-13.jpg
  • Oikeniwa Garden Kyoto Gyoen - Kyoto Imperial Palace  was a palace where successive emperors lived and conducted their political affairs for over 500 years from the Nanbokucho period to the beginning of the Meiji period. It is currently open to the public as a facility managed by the Imperial Household Agency.  Oikeniwa Garden was used as a place to meet shoguns and feudal lords during the Edo period, and the pond strolling style that can be seen. The garden began in the early Edo period, with a sand beach in front of the building, creating the atmosphere of a Japanese dynastic garden as well as multiple stone bridges. This garden has the scale of a feudal lord garden from the Edo period.
    Kyoto-Gyoen-06.jpg
  • Oikeniwa Garden Kyoto Gyoen - Kyoto Imperial Palace  was a palace where successive emperors lived and conducted their political affairs for over 500 years from the Nanbokucho period to the beginning of the Meiji period. It is currently open to the public as a facility managed by the Imperial Household Agency.  Oikeniwa Garden was used as a place to meet shoguns and feudal lords during the Edo period, and the pond strolling style that can be seen. The garden began in the early Edo period, with a sand beach in front of the building, creating the atmosphere of a Japanese dynastic garden as well as multiple stone bridges. This garden has the scale of a feudal lord garden from the Edo period.
    Kyoto-Gyoen-05.jpg
  • Heian Jogakuin Arisukan is the former residence built for the former imperial family, the Arisugawa Palace. The garden was created in 2009 by Masafumi Ogawa, also known as Jihei Ogawa, the 11th generation of the leading modern gardener, Jihei Ogawa.  The dry landscape garden and courtyard can be seen from the main house and it is called Heisei Ueji garden created by the 11th generation of Ueji: Jihei Ogawa with collaborator Masashi Ogawa.
    Arisukan-3.jpg
  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
    Shogakuan-10.jpg
  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
    Shogakuan-08.jpg
  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
    Shogakuan-01.jpg
  • Oikeniwa Garden Kyoto Gyoen - Kyoto Imperial Palace  was a palace where successive emperors lived and conducted their political affairs for over 500 years from the Nanbokucho period to the beginning of the Meiji period. It is currently open to the public as a facility managed by the Imperial Household Agency.  Oikeniwa Garden was used as a place to meet shoguns and feudal lords during the Edo period, and the pond strolling style that can be seen. The garden began in the early Edo period, with a sand beach in front of the building, creating the atmosphere of a Japanese dynastic garden as well as multiple stone bridges. This garden has the scale of a feudal lord garden from the Edo period.
    Kyoto-Gyoen-01.jpg
  • The Katsura Imperial Villa or Katsura Rikyu as it is known in Japanese is a villa in the western suburbs of Kyoto. It is one of Japan's most important large-scale cultural treasures. Its gardens are a masterpiece of Japanese gardening, and the buildings perfect examples of Japanese architecture at its best. The Katsura Imperial Villa is a good example of the essence of Japanese traditional design. The Villa combines principles usually used in early Shinto shrines and merges it with the esthetics and philosophy of Zen Buddhism. It provides an invaluable window into the villas of princes of the Edo period. The palace formerly belonged to the prince of the Hachij-no-miya family. The Imperial Household Agency now maintains and administers.
    katsura-4.jpg
  • The Katsura Imperial Villa or Katsura Rikyu as it is known in Japanese is a villa in the western suburbs of Kyoto. It is one of Japan's most important large-scale cultural treasures. Its gardens are a masterpiece of Japanese gardening, and the buildings perfect examples of Japanese architecture at its best. The Katsura Imperial Villa is a good example of the essence of Japanese traditional design. The Villa combines principles usually used in early Shinto shrines and merges it with the esthetics and philosophy of Zen Buddhism. It provides an invaluable window into the villas of princes of the Edo period. The palace formerly belonged to the prince of the Hachij-no-miya family. The Imperial Household Agency now maintains and administers.
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  • Oikeniwa Garden Kyoto Gyoen - Kyoto Imperial Palace  was a palace where successive emperors lived and conducted their political affairs for over 500 years from the Nanbokucho period to the beginning of the Meiji period. It is currently open to the public as a facility managed by the Imperial Household Agency.  Oikeniwa Garden was used as a place to meet shoguns and feudal lords during the Edo period, and the pond strolling style that can be seen. The garden began in the early Edo period, with a sand beach in front of the building, creating the atmosphere of a Japanese dynastic garden as well as multiple stone bridges. This garden has the scale of a feudal lord garden from the Edo period.
    Kyoto-Gyoen-14.jpg
  • Katsura Villa Garden Bridge - The Katsura Imperial Villa or Katsura Rikyu as it is known in Japanese is a villa in the western suburbs of Kyoto. It is one of Japan's most important large-scale cultural treasures. Its gardens are a masterpiece of Japanese gardening, and the buildings perfect examples of Japanese architecture at its best. The Katsura Imperial Villa is a good example of the essence of Japanese traditional design. The Villa combines principles usually used in early Shinto shrines and merges it with the esthetics and philosophy of Zen Buddhism. It provides an invaluable window into the villas of princes of the Edo period. The palace formerly belonged to the prince of the Hachij -no-miya family. The Imperial Household Agency now maintains and administers.
    katsura-5.jpg
  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
    Shogakuan-13.jpg
  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
    Shogakuan-11.jpg
  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
    Shogakuan-07.jpg
  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
    Shogakuan-05.jpg
  • Heian Jogakuin Arisukan is the former residence built for the former imperial family, the Arisugawa Palace. The garden was created in 2009 by Masafumi Ogawa, also known as Jihei Ogawa, the 11th generation of the leading modern gardener, Jihei Ogawa.  The dry landscape garden and courtyard can be seen from the main house and it is called Heisei Ueji garden created by the 11th generation of Ueji: Jihei Ogawa with collaborator Masashi Ogawa.
    Arisukan-2.jpg
  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
    Shogakuan-09.jpg
  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
    Shogakuan-02.jpg
  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
    Shogakuan-04.jpg
  • Oikeniwa Garden Kyoto Gyoen - Kyoto Imperial Palace  was a palace where successive emperors lived and conducted their political affairs for over 500 years from the Nanbokucho period to the beginning of the Meiji period. It is currently open to the public as a facility managed by the Imperial Household Agency.  Oikeniwa Garden was used as a place to meet shoguns and feudal lords during the Edo period, and the pond strolling style that can be seen. The garden began in the early Edo period, with a sand beach in front of the building, creating the atmosphere of a Japanese dynastic garden as well as multiple stone bridges. This garden has the scale of a feudal lord garden from the Edo period.
    Kyoto-Gyoen-04.jpg
  • Heian Jogakuin Arisukan is the former residence built for the former imperial family, the Arisugawa Palace. The garden was created in 2009 by Masafumi Ogawa, also known as Jihei Ogawa, the 11th generation of the leading modern gardener, Jihei Ogawa.  The dry landscape garden and courtyard can be seen from the main house and it is called Heisei Ueji garden created by the 11th generation of Ueji: Jihei Ogawa with collaborator Masashi Ogawa.
    Arisukan-5.jpg
  • Heian Jogakuin Arisukan is the former residence built for the former imperial family, the Arisugawa Palace. The garden was created in 2009 by Masafumi Ogawa, also known as Jihei Ogawa, the 11th generation of the leading modern gardener, Jihei Ogawa.  The dry landscape garden and courtyard can be seen from the main house and it is called Heisei Ueji garden created by the 11th generation of Ueji: Jihei Ogawa with collaborator Masashi Ogawa.
    Arisukan-1.jpg
  • The Katsura Imperial Villa or Katsura Rikyu as it is known in Japanese is a villa in the western suburbs of Kyoto. It is one of Japan's most important large-scale cultural treasures. Its gardens are a masterpiece of Japanese gardening, and the buildings perfect examples of Japanese architecture at its best. The Katsura Imperial Villa is a good example of the essence of Japanese traditional design. The Villa combines principles usually used in early Shinto shrines and merges it with the esthetics and philosophy of Zen Buddhism. It provides an invaluable window into the villas of princes of the Edo period. The palace formerly belonged to the prince of the Hachij-no-miya family. The Imperial Household Agency now maintains and administers.
    katsura-1.jpg
  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
    Shogakuan-15.jpg
  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
    Shogakuan-06.jpg
  • Shogaku-an - the main garden Haimen faces the main hall. It is a dry landscape garden with stepping stones and stone lanterns arranged in the moss. Shogakuan has been around since 1290, but it’s only open for visits in November and always for the famous Brush Prayer Rituals where old writing instruments like brushes and pens donated by local artists and businesses are thrown into a fire. The resulting smoke from the fire is believed to help improve your handwriting if you bathe in it.
    Shogakuan-14.jpg
  • Katsura Villa Garden Bridge - The Katsura Imperial Villa or Katsura Rikyu as it is known in Japanese is a villa in the western suburbs of Kyoto. It is one of Japan's most important large-scale cultural treasures. Its gardens are a masterpiece of Japanese gardening, and the buildings perfect examples of Japanese architecture at its best. The Katsura Imperial Villa is a good example of the essence of Japanese traditional design. The Villa combines principles usually used in early Shinto shrines and merges it with the esthetics and philosophy of Zen Buddhism. It provides an invaluable window into the villas of princes of the Edo period. The palace formerly belonged to the prince of the Hachij-no-miya family. The Imperial Household Agency now maintains and administers.
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  • Ninomaru garden was designed by the famous landscape architect and tea master, Kobori Enshu. It is located between the two main rings of fortifications, next to the palace of the same name. The garden has a large pond with three islands and features numerous carefully placed stones and topiary pine trees.  Nijo Castle and its garden are a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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  • The Terminal KYOTO is a café, art gallery, garden and event space that has been restored and renovated from a Kyoto machiya built in 1932 as the residence of Yasunosuke Kizaki, the founder of Kizaki Gofukuten , a famous Kyoto kimono shop as the neighborhood used to be a kimono district. Today it is a cafe gallery with a splendid Japanese garden at the back - very deep space for a Kyomachiya garden. The tatami room is now a cafe space, with a traditional Japanese tatami room overlooking the garden.
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