Kenrokuen Garden, Kanazawa, Japan

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Kenrokuen Garden in Kanazawa, Japan, was founded in 1676. The name Kenrokuen Garden is taken from "Luoyang Famous Gardens" written by the Chinese Song Dynasty poet Li Gefei.
Matsudaira Sadanobu, a senior figure in the shogunate, believed that this garden had the qualities of a famous garden proposed by Li Gefei: "grand, deep, human, ancient, springs, and overlooking", so he named it Kenroku-en.
Kenrokuen Garden is one of the three most famous gardens in Japan, along with Mito Kairakuen Garden and Okayama Korakuen Garden. Kenroku-en is a representative garden of the feudal lords of the Edo period. It was built over a long period of time by many lords of the Kaga domain.
Kenrokuen is located next to the commercial street in the center of Kanazawa, where you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of different seasons.
Kenrokuen Garden is a "travel-style" garden, but it is also the culmination of various gardening techniques at the time of its construction. The circular garden is not the sit-and-view garden enjoyed in temples or palace academies. Instead, the land area is fully utilized. Large ponds are dug in the garden, rockeries are piled up, and pavilions and teahouses are interspersed in suitable locations. , visitors must walk through it to browse the entire garden. Because there are several ponds of water in the garden, as well as meandering water running through them, and rockeries made of soil dug from the ponds, and planted with colorful flowers, plants and trees, it is also called a "mountain-building, forest-spring, and circulation-style garden." ”.
However, some ponds in the garden are dug too shallow and the bottom can be seen at a glance. This is much worse than the bottomless ponds in Suzhou gardens.
Although Kenrokuen Garden was built over a long period of time by many lords of the Kaga Domain, the basic idea behind its construction remains the same—the idea of ​​gods. Compare the big pool to the sea, with islands in the sea, and immortal gods living on the islands. The feudal lords projected their wishes for longevity and eternal prosperity for their clansmen into the garden. Tsunaki, the fifth-generation feudal lord who was the first to build the park, built the three fairy islands of Horai, Hojo, and Yingzhou in Laochi Pond; Qitai, the thirteenth-generation feudal lord, also built Horai Island in Kasumi Pond.
Of course, if you don’t go through the brain, at first glance, you will think that we are copying Suzhou Gardens in China. However, according to the time when it was first built, it is really unclear who is copying whom. However, copying is learning, and it is not a bad thing. As long as it is filtered by the brain, If you incorporate some of the designer's own ideas into it, then the work will belong to you. #日本Travel #Overseas travel #Japanese garden #Japanese travel #Pond #Stream #Tree #Flower bush #Lake

Post by 玩转星球-Kevin | Oct 21, 2022