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Kiyosumi Gardens, a representative garden from the Meiji era, is located in Koto-ku, Tokyo. (November 2016)
Kiyosumi Gardens, after landscaping works through three generations of Iwasaki family, was donated to Tokyo municipal.
Daisensui, a big pond in the center of the garden, has three isles in it.
It's a traditional Japanese garden with artificial ponds and hills, one of nine gardens of Tokyo metropolitan cultural property.
Stone bridge
The house at the pondside, is called 'Ryotei'. It's designated as Tokyo Metropolitan selected Historic Building.
Ryotei is a house in 'sukiya-zukuri', the style of a tea-ceremony house. The stone lantern in front of it is called 'Kasuga-doro'.
The hill called 'Mt.Fuji', the highest and largest artificial hill in the garden.
The house on the opposite bank is Taisho Memorial Hall relocated the house which was used for the funeral of the Emperor Taisho.
The isle called 'Nakanoshima' in the pond. Go to Nakanoshima with a no-railings bridge.
No-railings bridge to Nakanoshima
Autumn leaves of Japanese wax tree, 'Hazenoki', in Nakanoshima
'Iso-watari', a passage of the stones placed at the edge of the pond.
It's said to have placed the stones so that the scenery of the ponds changes a step by a step.
Matsuo Basho's Haiku Monument engraved with Japanese letters '古池や かはづ飛び込む 水の音'.
It means 'The ancient pond - A frog leaps in - The sound of the water'
This haiku is said to have been made at Fukagawa Basho Hermitage near the garden in the spring 1685.
There are some of stone Buddhist image quietly in a corner of the garden.
Kiyosumi Gardens map
End of Kiyosumi Gardens Daisensui. return to List of scenic sites visited
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