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• Sengan'en
  *''Japanese'': 仙巖園 ''(Sengan'en)'' Sengan'en is a formal garden in [[Kagoshima]], containing within it the Iso Palace, a secondary villa ('
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• Uchaya udun
  *''Japanese'': 御茶屋[[御殿]] ''(uchaya udun)'' ...castle]] compound, it was often alternatively known simply as "the eastern garden," a name given it by [[Chinese investiture envoys|Qing envoy]] [[Wang Ji]]
  1 KB (179 words) - 08:36, 31 December 2016
• Tenju-an
  *''Japanese'': 天授庵 ''(Tenju-an)'' ...ver, around [[1602]], and other parts in the late 19th century. One of the garden footpaths dates to [[1338]], around the time of the original establishment
  3 KB (414 words) - 16:45, 3 November 2014
• Koto-in
  *''Japanese'': 高桐院 ''(Koutou-in)'' ...h, lined with trees and bamboo. It is particularly famous for its [[momiji|Japanese maples]].
  3 KB (438 words) - 03:50, 3 June 2012
• Sankeien
  *''Japanese'': 三渓園 ''(Sankeien)'' Sankeien is a Japanese garden in [[Yokohama]], built by [[silk]] magnate [[Hara Sankei|Hara Tomitarô]].
  5 KB (835 words) - 04:48, 6 May 2012
• Shima (teahouse)
  *''Japanese'': 志摩 ''(Shima)'' ...are handrails (bannisters) facing the front, and overhangs over the inner garden.
  4 KB (710 words) - 16:42, 16 December 2014
• Ryogen-in
  *''Japanese'': 龍源院 ''(Ryougenin)'' ...cranes and turtles. One, called Tôtekiko, is said to be the smallest rock garden in Japan; the pattern of the stones there is meant to resemble the ripples
  2 KB (261 words) - 05:49, 5 April 2012
• Tenryu-ji
  *''Japanese'': 天龍寺 ''(Tenryuu-ji)'' ...largely the same form as when Soseki designed it in the 14th century. The garden has thus been designated a scenic and historical site by the national gover
  3 KB (464 words) - 02:53, 15 November 2017
• Hotta mansion
  ...mansion.jpg|right|thumb|320px|One section of the mansion, as seen from the garden]] *''Japanese'': 旧堀田邸 ''(kyuu hotta tei)''
  3 KB (479 words) - 19:19, 14 September 2016
• Tsuda Genba
  *''Japanese'': 津田玄蕃 ''(Tsuda Genba)'' *McClain, James. Kanazawa: A Seventeenth-Century Japanese Castle Town. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
  2 KB (332 words) - 05:22, 27 October 2009
• Kohoan
  *''Japanese'': 孤篷庵 ''(Kohouan)'' ...on the ocean. The temple is known for its tearoom, known as Bôsen, and tea garden, which are likewise designed to evoke the idea of looking out over the ocea
  2 KB (294 words) - 16:46, 30 March 2012
• 1746
  *The first Japanese edition of the "[[Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual]]" first appears.
  1 KB (150 words) - 17:21, 3 November 2013
• Ginkaku-ji
  [[Image:Ginkaku.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The Silver Pavilion, and rock garden.]] *''Japanese'': 銀閣寺 ''(ginkaku-ji)''
  5 KB (773 words) - 13:25, 28 August 2013
• Daisen-in
  *''Japanese'': 大仙院 ''(daisen-in)'' ...of the ''hôjô'', and is quite narrow and enclosed by plastered walls. The garden evokes the idea of a river flowing alongside the building; two vertical roc
  2 KB (371 words) - 10:39, 18 March 2012
• Shinden-zukuri
  *''Japanese'': 寝殿造 ''(shinden-zukuri)'' ...(''tai'', 対) which extended out perpendicular to it, encircling a pond and garden. The wings were attached to the ''shinden'' by a one-bay-wide corridor call
  2 KB (330 words) - 22:31, 22 May 2012
• Miyara-dunchi
  *''Japanese'': 宮良[[殿内]] ''(Miyara dunchi)'' ...n for this reason, it never was. The mansion also features an aristocratic garden with large stones.
  2 KB (254 words) - 02:50, 23 August 2016
• Wang Xizhi
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': [[王]]羲之 ''(Wáng Xīzhī / Ô Gishi)'' ...reenacted in gardens throughout the region as well.<ref>Chi Xiao, Chinese Garden as Lyric Enclave, Center for Chinese Studies, Univ. of Michigan (2001), 89.
  2 KB (265 words) - 03:44, 20 January 2015
• Qin
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 琴 ''(qín / kin)'', 古琴 ''(gǔqín / kokin)'' ...n-stringed zither, it is closely related to the ''[[guzheng]]'' and to the Japanese ''[[koto]]''. The standard form of the ''qin'' is said to date back to the
  2 KB (276 words) - 07:49, 22 August 2019
• Oyama Shrine
  *''Japanese'': [[尾山]]神社 ''(Oyama jinja)'' ...eeling of a foreign country. Partially built in red brick, it incorporates Japanese, Chinese, Dutch, and other Western elements, including stained glass window
  2 KB (285 words) - 11:11, 4 April 2017
• Zhuangzi
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 荘子 ''(Zhuāngzǐ / Soushi)'' ...Meng, and as having served at some point as an official in the [[lacquer]] garden, though the details of this description, too, are quite vague. It remains u
  2 KB (257 words) - 21:50, 11 January 2014

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