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Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Genkyu-en is the garden at the former second residence of the Ii family in the San-no-maru section of Hikone Castle. It was completed by the 4th feudal lord of the Oumi Domain, Ii Naooki, in 1679. The name is derived from the villa of Chinese Emperor Xuanzong (685-763) of the Tang Dynasty. The Rinchi-kaku and other buildings are carefully positioned around the pond with trees and unusual stones. The building in the photograph was used as an inn and restaurant from the Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐44‐0]

Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Genkyu-en is the garden at the former second residence of the Ii family in the San-no-maru section of Hikone Castle. It was completed by the 4th feudal lord of the Oumi Domain, Ii Naooki, in 1679. A garden of the chisenkaiyu style, it incorporates features of the Chinese Eight Scenes of Xiaoxiang and the Eight Scenes of Oumi and to this day provides an excellent example of early Edo Period landscaping. The name is derived from the villa of Chinese Emperor Xuanzong (685-763) of the Tang Dynasty.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐27‐0]

Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Genkyu-en is the garden at the former second residence of the Ii family in the San-no-maru section of Hikone Castle. It was completed by the 4th feudal lord of the Oumi Domain, Ii Naooki, in 1679. A garden of the chisenkaiyu style, it incorporates features of the Chinese Eight Scenes of Xiaoxiang and the Eight Scenes of Oumi and to this day provides an excellent example of early Edo Period landscaping. The name is derived from the villa of Chinese Emperor Xuanzong (685-763) of the Tang Dynasty.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐26‐0]

Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Genkyu-en is the garden at the former second residence of the Ii family in the San-no-maru section of Hikone Castle. It was completed by the 4th feudal lord of the Oumi Domain, Ii Naooki, in 1679. The name is derived from the villa of Chinese Emperor Xuanzong (685-763) of the Tang Dynasty. The Rinchi-kaku and other buildings are carefully positioned around the pond with trees and unusual stones. The building in the photograph was used as an inn and restaurant from the Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number59‐60‐0]

Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Two women admire wisteria blossoms. The title Hikone suggests that this was taken in Genkyu-en, the garden of the former second residence of the Ii family in the north San-no-maru section of Hikone Castle. The chisenkaiyu-style garden (with a path meandering through the garden around a central pond) was completed in 1679 by the 4th feudal lord of the Oumi domain, Ii Naooki.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐165‐0]