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Michinoku Mano-Manyo Botanical Garden
The was a botanical garden located in Kashima, Fukushima, Japan. It was open daily without charge. The garden had contained about 150 plant varieties that appeared in the Man'yōshū anthology. References * See also * List of botanical gardens in Japan Botanical gardens in Japan Gardens in Fukushima Prefecture {{Japan-garden-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanical Garden
A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, and is the more usual term in the United Kingdom. is a garden with a documented collection of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display, and education. Typically plants are labelled with their botanical names. It may contain specialist plant collections such as cactus, cacti and other succulent plants, herb gardens, plants from particular parts of the world, and so on; there may be greenhouses, shadehouses, again with special collections such as tropical plants, alpine plants, or other exotic plants. Most are at least partly open to the public, and may offer guided tours, educational displays, art exhibitions, book rooms, open-air theatrical and musical performances, and other entertainment. Botanical gard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashima, Fukushima
was a town located in Sōma District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 12,341 and a density of 114.21 persons per km2. The total area was 108.06 km2. On January 1, 2006, Kashima, along with the city of Haramachi, and the town of Odaka (also from Sōma District), was merged to create the city of Minamisōma. Points of interest * Michinoku Mano-Manyo Botanical Garden The was a botanical garden located in Kashima, Fukushima, Japan. It was open daily without charge. The garden had contained about 150 plant varieties that appeared in the Man'yōshū anthology. References * See also * List of botanical gard ... Dissolved municipalities of Fukushima Prefecture {{Fukushima-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man'yōshū
The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan's poetic compilations. The compiler, or the last in a series of compilers, is today widely believed to be Ōtomo no Yakamochi, although numerous other theories have been proposed. The chronologically last datable poem in the collection is from AD 759 ( 4516). It contains many poems from a much earlier period, with the bulk of the collection representing the period between AD 600 and 759. The precise significance of the title is not known with certainty. The contains 20 volumes and more than 4,500 poems, and is divided into three genres: , songs at banquets and trips; , songs about love between men and women; and songs to mourn the death of people. These songs were written by people of various statuses, such as the Emperor, aristocrats, junior officials, soldiers ( songs), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fukushima Prefecture
Fukushima Prefecture (; ja, 福島県, Fukushima-ken, ) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Fukushima Prefecture has a population of 1,810,286 () and has a geographic area of . Fukushima Prefecture borders Miyagi Prefecture and Yamagata Prefecture to the north, Niigata Prefecture to the west, Gunma Prefecture to the southwest, and Tochigi Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture to the south. Fukushima is the capital and Iwaki is the largest city of Fukushima Prefecture, with other major cities including Kōriyama, Aizuwakamatsu, and Sukagawa. Fukushima Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast at the southernmost part of the Tōhoku region, and is home to Lake Inawashiro, the fourth-largest lake in Japan. Fukushima Prefecture is the third-largest prefecture of Japan (after Hokkaido and Iwate Prefecture) and divided by mountain ranges into the three regions of Aizu, Nakadōri, and Hamadōri. History Prehistory The keyhole-shaped Ōy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Botanical Gardens In Japan
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, Saitama) * Atagawa Tropical & Alligator Garden (Kamo, Shizuoka) * Botanic Garden, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University (Kanazawa, Ishikawa) * Botanical Garden of Tohoku University (Sendai, Miyagi) * Botanic Gardens of Toyama (Toyama, Toyama) * Botanical Gardens Faculty of Science Osaka City University (Katano, Osaka) * Enoshima Tropical Plants Garden (Fujisawa, Kanagawa) * Experimental Station for Landscape Plants (Chiba, Chiba) * Fuji Bamboo Garden (Nagaizumi, Shizuoka) * Fukuoka Municipal Zoo and Botanical Garden (Fukuoka, Fukuoka) * Futagami Manyo Botanical Gardens (Takaoka, Toyama) * Hakone Botanical Garden of Wetlands (Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanical Gardens In Japan
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (''botanē'') meaning "pasture", "herbs" "grass", or "fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – edible, medici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
