Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Two beautiful gardens near my apartment

I explored Kyu-Furukawa Tei-en today, which is an estate set in a hillside near my apartment.  The top of the hill houses a Scottish-style manor and an English-style garden and the bottom has a Japanese style garden built into the hillside.  Riku Gi En is nearby Japanese style circular garden where you walk around a large pond many times, each time taking a new path and seeing new scenes.  This garden is supposed to recreate miniature landscapes made famous in traditional Japanese poems called waka.
 

2 comments:

  1. Good photos -- I like these gardens better than Boboli. Esp. the Japanese garden.

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