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• Happo-en
  *''Japanese'': 八芳園 ''(Happou-en)'' The Happô-en (lit. "eight fragrances garden") is a Japanese walking garden in [[Tokyo]] freely accessible to the public but primarily used today as a
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• Tanshoen
  *''Japanese'': 探勝園 ''(tanshouen)'' Tanshôen is a public park & garden in [[Kagoshima]], located adjacent to [[Terukuni Shrine]], and just below t
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• Daishoji Gardens
  *''Japanese'': 大聖寺庭園 ''(Daishouji teien)'' ...ô]] moved a number of documents from her palace at Kawara and created this garden. The gardens are located on Karasuma-dôri, a short single city block north
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• Tenshaen
  *''Japanese'': 天赦園 ''(Tenshaen)'' ...n [[Uwajima]], in [[Ehime prefecture]]. It was established as a retirement garden for [[Date Munetada]], seventh lord of [[Uwajima han]], in [[1866]], and se
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• Korakuen
  ::''For the garden in Tokyo, see [[Koishikawa Korakuen]]'' *''Japanese'': 後楽園 ''
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• Koishikawa Korakuen
  *''Japanese'': 後楽園 ''(kourakuen)'' ...[[Mito Edo mansion|Edo mansion]]. Construction began in [[1629]], but the garden was lost to a fire. It was completed by Yorifusa's son and successor, [[Tok
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• Mukojima Hyakkaen
  *''Japanese'': [[向島]] 百花園 ''(mukoujima hyakkaen)'' Mukôjima Hyakkaen, or Mukôjima Hundred Flowers Garden, is a Japanese garden located in the Mukôjima area of [[Tokyo]]. It is famous for its many stone
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• Toko-en
  *''Japanese'': 東湖園 ''(Touko-en)'' ...y]]), incorporating the vision of Mt. Misaoyama into the aesthetics of the garden.
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• Hoshun-in
  *''Japanese'': 芳春院 ''(Houshun-in)'' ...ich is said to evoke the gardens of [[Ginkaku-ji]] and [[Kinkaku-ji]]. The garden was designed by [[Kobori Enshu|Kobori Enshû]] in [[1617]], at the request
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• Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual
  [[Image:Mustardseed.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A copy of the Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual, in the collection of the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]].] *''Published: [[1679]] (first volume, in China); [[1746]] (first Japanese edition)''
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• Nakatani Shinshichi
  ...right|thumb|320px|The ''Shôrômon'' (Bell Tower Gate) at the [[Hagiwara Tea Garden]] in [[San Francisco]], built by Nakatani Shinshichi.]] *''Japanese'': [[中谷]]新七 ''(Nakatani Shinshichi)''
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• Shinsenen
  *''Japanese'': 神泉苑 ''(shinsen'en)'' Shinsen'en is an Imperial garden in [[Kyoto]] which was the site of numerous aristocratic gatherings during
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• Uemura Masakatsu (1695-1777)
  *''Japanese'': [[上村]]政勝 ''(Uemura Masakatsu)'' ...ogun, Uemura accompanied him to [[Edo]], planting a larger pharmacological garden in Edo's Komaba neighborhood in [[1720]]. He left that same year on a journ
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• Vienna World's Fair
  ...en anywhere in Europe, and the first major venue in which the newly-coined Japanese term ''bijutsu'' 美術 ("art") was used. ...titutions a practice-run, so to speak, for the organization and display of Japanese arts, crafts, technology, and so forth at Vienna the following year.<ref>Ma
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• Orchid Pavilion Gathering
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 蘭亭集會 ''(Lán tíng jí huì / rantei shuukai)'' ...s a famous poetry gathering which took place on [[353]]/3/3 at the private garden of [[Wang Xizhi]], and which has come to be seen as the model ideal for [[l
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• Honpo-ji
  *''Japanese'': 本法寺 ''(Honpou-ji)'' ...of "breath." Nationally designated as a site of scenic beauty (国指定名勝), the garden includes a lotus pond, and an arrangement of rocks meant to resemble a wate
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• Rikugien
  *''Japanese'': 六義園 ''(Rikugien)'' ...t "Rikugien" after a line from a [[waka|poem]] by [[Ki no Tsurayuki]]. The garden would continue to house the [[Yanagisawa clan]] lower mansion until the [[B
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• Ryoan-ji
  [[File:Ryoanji.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The famous rock garden at Ryôan-ji]] *''Japanese'': 龍安寺 ''(ryouan-ji)''
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• Kenrokuen
  *''Japanese'': 兼六園 ''(kenrokuen)'' Kenrokuen is one of the most famous Japanese gardens in the country, and was formerly the private gardens of the [[Maeda
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• Higo-Hosokawa Garden
  *''Japanese'': 肥後細川庭園 ''(Higo Hosokawa teien)'' The Higo-Hosokawa Garden is a Japanese garden in Bunkyô-ku, Tokyo. It is associated with the [[Hosokawa clan]], and is l
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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]]
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• 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
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• Koto-in
  *''Japanese'': 高桐院 ''(Koutou-in)'' ...h, lined with trees and bamboo. It is particularly famous for its [[momiji|Japanese maples]].
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• Sankeien
  *''Japanese'': 三渓園 ''(Sankeien)'' Sankeien is a Japanese garden in [[Yokohama]], built by [[silk]] magnate [[Hara Sankei|Hara Tomitarô]].
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• Shima (teahouse)
  *''Japanese'': 志摩 ''(Shima)'' ...are handrails (bannisters) facing the front, and overhangs over the inner garden.
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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)''
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• Tsuda Genba
  *''Japanese'': 津田玄蕃 ''(Tsuda Genba)'' *McClain, James. Kanazawa: A Seventeenth-Century Japanese Castle Town. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
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• 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
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• 1746
  *The first Japanese edition of the "[[Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual]]" first appears.
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• Ginkaku-ji
  [[Image:Ginkaku.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The Silver Pavilion, and rock garden.]] *''Japanese'': 銀閣寺 ''(ginkaku-ji)''
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Shimabara (Kyoto)
  *''Japanese'': 島原 ''(shimabara)'' ...ere arranged in such a way that they each provided a different view of the garden, without providing too much of a view into other clients' rooms. Upstairs,
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• Chofu han
  *''Japanese'': 長府藩 ''(Choufu han)'' ...資料研究センター (2020), 110.; Google Maps.[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mori+Garden/@35.660363,139.7301708,19z]</ref>
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• Tsurugane Shrine
  *''Japanese'': 鶴嶺神社 ''(Tsurugane jinja)'' ...[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]] factory complex, and the [[Shimazu clan]] garden at [[Sengan'en]], in the Iso neighborhood of [[Kagoshima]], .
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• Obai-in
  *''Japanese'': 黄梅院 ''(Oubaiin)'' A dry landscape (''[[kare sansui]]'') garden on the grounds known as Jikichû-tei is said to have been designed by Sen n
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• Ichijodani castle
  ...thumb|500px|A scale model of the Asakura yakata, at the National Museum of Japanese History]] *''Japanese'': 一乗谷城 ''(Ichijoudani-jou)''
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• Ichiwa
  *''Japanese'': 一文字屋和輔 ''(Ichimonjiya wasuke)'' ...treet. Other seats can be found inside, or in the back, looking out over a garden said to have been designed in the 17th century by [[Kobori Enshu|Kobori Ens
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• Noguchi House
  *''Japanese'': 野口家住宅 ''(Noguchi-ke juutaku)'' ...''ma'' is the standard distance between supporting pillars in traditional Japanese architecture.</ref> wide, and the room contains a ''[[chigaidana]]'' shelf
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• Shikinaen
  *''Japanese'': [[識名]]園 ''(shikinaen)'' ...built to host welcoming receptions for [[Chinese investiture envoys]]. The garden, complete with a red-tile-roofed palace hall, a pond with a small island in
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• Eight Views of Ryukyu
  *''Japanese'': 琉球八景 ''(Ryuukyuu hakkei)'' *"Banana Garden at Chûtô" (中島蕉園, ''Chûtô shôen'') - [[Nakashima (Naha)|Nakashi
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• Honkoku-ji
  *''Japanese'': 本国寺, 本圀寺 ''(Honkoku-ji)'' ...n, at that time Honkoku-ji had a five-story pagoda with a metal tip, and a garden well-arranged with stones, and bamboo plants. According to a shogunate reco
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