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Kawachi Wisteria Garden (Japanese: 河内藤園 Kawachi fujien) [1] is a private garden located in Kitakyushu founded by Higuchi Masao. [2] The garden contains over 20 kinds of wisterias in a 10,000m 2 area. [3] CNN listed the garden among Japan's 31 most beautiful places, [4] and this greatly increased its visitors; access is now limited to ...
The Kyū Shiba Rikyū Garden (旧芝離宮恩賜庭園), also known as Kyū Shiba Rikyū Onshi Teien ("Former Shiba Villa Imperial Gift Gardens") is a public garden and former imperial garden in Minato ward, Tokyo, Japan. The garden is one of four surviving Edo-period clan gardens in Tokyo, the others being Koishikawa Kōraku-en, Rikugi-en, and ...
The oldest water fountain in Japan continues functioning at Kenroku-en in Kanazawa. The Three Great Gardens of Japan (日本三名園, Nihon Sanmeien), also known as "the three most famous gardens in Japan" are considered to include Kenroku-en in Kanazawa, Kōraku-en in Okayama and Kairaku-en in Mito. [1]
The garden opened in 1932, and is a Manyo Botanical Garden containing all plants (over 300 species) mentioned in the Man'yōshū, each labeled with its name and poems that mention it. The site also contains a Wisteria Garden, Camellia Garden, Iris Garden, and a Five Grain Garden which collects grain plants used for food, textiles, or dyes in ...
Chinese wisteria is the most fragrant, made up of cascading purple or blue flowers and counterclockwise twining stems. Japanese wisteria has long flower clusters with stems that twine clockwise ...
This list of botanical gardens in Japan is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in Japan. Akatsuka Botanical Garden (Itabashi, Tokyo) Aloha Garden Tateyama (Tateyama, Chiba) Amami Islands Botanical Garden (Amami, Kagoshima) Aoshima Subtropical Botanical Garden (Miyazaki, Miyazaki) Aritaki Arboretum (Koshigaya ...
Japanese gardens, typically a section of a larger garden, continue to be popular in the West, and many typical Japanese garden plants, such as cherry trees and the many varieties of Acer palmatum or Japanese maple, are also used in all types of garden, giving a faint hint of the style to very many gardens.
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