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Kiyosumi Garden: the pond and tea house The Isle. Kiyosumi Garden (清澄庭園, Kiyosumi Teien) is a traditional Japanese stroll garden located in Fukagawa, Tokyo.It was constructed along classic principles in 1878–85, during the Meiji Period, by the shipping financier and industrialist Iwasaki Yatarō. [1]
Isui-en (依水園, Isuien) is a Japanese garden located in Nara, the old capital of Japan near Kyōto. It has been preserved since its creation in the Meiji era, and is the only walking garden (kaiyushiki teien) in Nara. [1] It is divided into two sections, which were originally two separate gardens, and each features a pagoda.
Hakone Gardens is an 18-acre (7.3 ha) traditional Japanese garden in Saratoga, California, United States. A recipient of the Save America's Treasures Award by the National Trust for Historic Preservation , it is recognized as one of the oldest Japanese-style residential gardens in the Western Hemisphere .
The Former Ikeda Family Gardens (旧池田氏庭園) is a Japanese landscape garden and nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty in the city of Daisen, Akita Prefecture, Japan. [1] The garden contains a western-style mansion (now a library), which is an Important Cultural Property of Japan. [2] The gardens are located 15 minutes by car from ...
The Japanese Garden was designed by Ken Nakajima in 1992, includes a teahouse, waterfalls, bridges, and stone paths that wander among crepe myrtles, azaleas, Japanese maples, dogwoods and cherry trees. Hershey Gardens: Hershey: Pennsylvania: Includes a Japanese garden with rare giant sequoias, Dawn Redwood trees, Japanese maples and more.
Sankei-en (三溪園, Three Creeks Garden) is a traditional Japanese-style garden in Naka Ward, Yokohama, Japan, which opened in 1906. [1] Sankei-en was designed and built by Tomitaro Hara (原富太郎) (1868–1939), known by the pseudonym Sankei Hara, who was a silk trader. [1]
The Japanese dry garden (枯山水, karesansui) or Japanese rock garden, often called a Zen garden, is a distinctive style of Japanese garden. It creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in ...
Other spellings of tsubo-niwa translate to "container garden", and a tsubo-niwa may differ in size from the tsubo unit of measurement. [1] A number of different terms exist to describe the function of townhouse gardens. Courtyard gardens of all sizes are referred to as naka-niwa, "inner gardens"; [3] gardens referred to as tōri-niwa (通り庭 ...