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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
  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
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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
  2 KB (394 words) - 15:44, 17 August 2013
• 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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• Ninna-ji
  *''Japanese'': 仁和寺 ''(Ninna-ji)'' ...se" (''wayô'') style of the [[Heian period]].<ref>The term ''wayô'' (lit. "Japanese style") was coined in the [[Kamakura period]] to refer to the architectural
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• Saigo Tsugumichi
  * ''Japanese'': [[西郷]]従道 ''(Saigou Tsugumichi)'' Tsugumichi led a Japanese invasion of Formosa (Taiwan) in May, [[1874]] ([[Taiwan Expedition of 1874]
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• Mono no aware
  *''Japanese'': 物の哀れ ''(mono no aware)'' ...equently used to refer to a particular aesthetic, or aesthetic element, in Japanese traditional culture, particularly [[Nara period|Nara]] and [[Heian period]]
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• Telegraph
  *''Japanese'': 電信機 ''(denshinki)'', 電報 ''(denpô)'' ...this was indeed the first-ever telegraph message in Japan, or the first on Japanese-made equipment, and whether it was using the machine gifted by Nabeshima or
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• Machiya
  *''Japanese'': 町屋、町家 ''(machiya)'' ...ya'' (lit. "townhouses") are perhaps the most standard form of traditional Japanese urban one-family dwellings. Developing into their mature form in the [[Edo
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• Kencho-ji
  *''Japanese'': 建長寺 ''(kenchou-ji)'' ...ound it. Daolong would be the first to be named a Japanese Zen master by a Japanese Emperor.
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• Seiken-ji
  *''Japanese'': 清見寺 ''(Seiken-ji; Kiyomi-dera)'' ...estored once again by [[Shogun]] [[Ashikaga Takauji]] in [[1342]], and its garden was officially named a "famous site" (''meishô''<ref>名勝</ref>) in the
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• Hatagoya
  *''Japanese'': 旅籠 ''(hatago)'', 旅籠屋 ''(hatagoya)'' ...building, from the ''genkan'' (entrance) through the kitchen and a pocket garden. A tatami-lined room behind the ''mise no ma'' but before the guest rooms w
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• Nakashima (Naha)
  *''Japanese'': 仲島 ''(Nakashima)'' ...hinese illustrated book, the scene is entitled ''Chûtô shôen'', or "Banana Garden at Chûtô (Nakashima)."
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• Kawamura Nagataka
  *''Japanese'': [[川村]] 修就 ''(Kawamura Nagataka)'' ...n [[Edo]], and originally inheriting his family post of ''niwaban'' (lit. "garden guard"), in which he traveled the realm compiling secret reports for the sh
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• Motoori Norinaga
  *''Japanese'': 本居宣長 ''(Motoori Norinaga)'' ...the [[Edo period]], writing extensively on the essence of Japaneseness, or Japanese culture, and disparaging Chinese culture and influence.
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• Nanzen-ji
  *''Japanese'': 南禅寺 ''(Nanzenji)'' ...he ''[[shinden-zukuri]]'' architecture style, and faces the temple's front garden, said to have been designed by [[Kobori Enshu|Kobori Enshû]] around [[1600
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• Akamatsu Mitsusuke
  * ''Japanese'': [[赤松]] 満祐 ''(Akamatsu Mitsusuke)'' ...ctory feast. Yoshinori agreed, and during a presentation of dancing in the garden a number of horses suddenly burst from their stables and caused great confu
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• Kaga Edo mansion
  *''Japanese'': 加賀江戸藩邸 ''(Kaga Edo hantei)'' ...ed by as many as 30,000 people.<ref>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 72.</ref> The space i
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• Sho Jun (1873-1945)
  *''Japanese'': [[尚]] 順 ''(Shou Jun)'' ...ekijô'' theater, and a canning factory, and was a major figure in both the Japanese political and investment worlds of his time.
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• 1894
  ===[[Sino-Japanese War]]=== *1894/9/15 Japanese First Army (17,000 troops) attacks Pingyang.
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• Chengde
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 承德 ''(Chéngdé)'' ...used by elite scholar-officials, while an area to the north, known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Trees, contained an area of prairie meant to reproduce the
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• Hikone castle
  *''Japanese'': 彦根城 ''(Hikone-jou)'' ...x. It was also known as the Rinchikaku ("Tower Next to the Pond"). Another garden in the compound, the Genkyû-en, was built by Ii Naooki in 1677, and was me
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• Shokoshuseikan
  *''Japanese'': 尚古集成館 ''(Shou ko shuu sei kan)'' ...loyed over two thousand workers.<ref>[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa''
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• Eisei Bunko
  *''Japanese'': 永青文庫 ''(Eisei Bunko)'' ...rtion of the estate's gardens are maintained nearby as the [[Higo-Hosokawa Garden]]. The archive takes its name from the "ei" of Eigen-an, a [[tachu|branch t
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