is a

Japanese garden are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden desig ...

Nara The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an " independent federal agency of the United States government within the executive branch", charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It i ...

, Japan, to the immediate southwest of Isui-en.

History

Adjacent to Yoshiki-en flows the , celebrated in the

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 ...

. According to an , the site was occupied until the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

by one of its branch temples, . The land became private property during the

Meiji period The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization ...

. In 1919 the residence and gardens were laid out. The gardens have been open to the public since the end of the

Shōwa period Shōwa may refer to: * Hirohito (1901–1989), the 124th Emperor of Japan, known posthumously as Emperor Shōwa * Showa Corporation, a Japanese suspension and shock manufacturer, affiliated with the Honda keiretsu Japanese eras * Jōwa (Heian ...

. In 2011 the garden residence was designated a Prefectural Cultural Property.

Gardens

The gardens consist of a pond garden, moss garden with tea house, and

camellia ''Camellia'' (pronounced or ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are more than 220 described species, with some controversy ...

garden.

Residence

Twelve component structures of the Taishō-period have been jointly designated a Prefectural Cultural Property, seven in the main residence (the north, central, and south buildings, north entrance corridor, south corridor, and two earthen storehouses), three in the detached residence, an

arbour Arbor(s) or Arbour(s) may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Arbor'' (installation), a 2013 public artwork in Indianapolis, Indiana, US * Arbor, a counterweight-carrying device found in theater fly systems * ''The Arbor'', a 1980 play by Andr ...

, and the front gate, along with supplementary designations of two or inscriptions relating to the building, fencing, and twelve painted

fusuma In Japanese architecture, are vertical rectangular panels which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors. They typically measure about wide by tall, the same size as a ''tatami'' mat, and are thick. The ...

panels; the last, formerly part of the Crane Room and Spring Orchid Room, were removed in 2006 and are now in the

Nara Prefectural Museum of Art opened in Nara, Japan in 1973. The collection numbers some 4,100 items and special exhibitions are also held. See also * Yamato Bunkakan * Nara National Museum * List of Cultural Properties of Japan - paintings (Nara) This list is of the Cu ...

References

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