Sankeien Garden

View of ducks on the main pond of Sankeien Garden. The three-story pagoda in the back was built in 1457 and moved to this site in 1914 after its adjacent temple in Kyoto became abandoned.

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Boat on main pond at Sankeien Garden, located in a suburb of Yokohama city.

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View of lush foliage on the slopes that border the southern end of Sankeien Garden in Yokohama.

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Tomitaro Hara (1868-1939), a wealthy merchant and tycoon of the silk trade, originally built Sankeien Garden for his personal use. In 1914, he acquired an abandoned 3-story pagoda, which was originally built in 1457. Hara had it disassembled, shipped, restored, and reassembled in his garden.

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The Kanshinbashi Bridge (foreground) was built in 1334 and moved here from Osaka. The main hall of the former Tomyoji Temple (background) was built in 1457 and moved here from Kyoto. 

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Meticulously pruned and nurtured over the past 100-plus years, the dark evergreens provide great contrast with the autumn colors of gingko and maple trees that have been strategically planted throughout Sankeien Garden.

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Old Japanese black pine tree among some maple trees that are just starting to turn red. Wall covered in white plaster and topped off with marugawara roof tiles and gatou (eave-end tiles with circular ornamental pendants). Such walls are typically only found near castles, temples, shrines, or old homes of very wealthy or powerful families.

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Marugawara roof tiles and gatou (eave-end tiles with circular ornamental pendants) used on the top of one of the inner-garden walls.

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Marugawara roof tiles and gatou (eave-end tiles with circular ornamental pendants) used on the top of one of the inner-garden walls.

ISO 800 at ƒ/4.5 for 1/200 sec.

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A small temple-like structure built in 1591 by a famous military commander to express appreciation for his ill mother’s recovery. The structure, called a juto, was rescued from demise in Kyoto and moved to Sankeien Garden in 1905.

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Roof tiles and eave-end tiles with circular pendants showing a family crest on the roof of a structure built in 1591 in  Kyoto and moved to Yokohama in 1905.

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This building, called Choshukau, was built at the direction of the Shogun in 1623 as one of many structures belonging to the Nijojo Castle in Kyoto.

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Minato Harbor View Park

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Rosebud at Harbor View Park, which sits atop the bluff overlooking Yokohama Port.

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Withered rose stem reflected in a large garden pot full of rain water.

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She can't resist playing in the water fountain at the park.

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The "Cascade Garden" features a stepped water cascade on a hill crowded with over 700 plants of about 80 varieties of roses on the site of the former British Consulate General's residence, which was  in use until about the late 1860s. Yokohama city had the foresight to preserve the old buildings and gardens dating back more than 155 years. During full bloom, the park swarms with couples on a date, young families, and elderly couples holding hands.

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Long exposure of the Minato Mirai waterfront district as seen from Yamashita Park. Yamashita Park was the brainchild of Marshall Martin, a weathy British expatriate who convinced the government to use debris from the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 to fill a portion of the bay and create a beautiful park and dock for the Hikawa-maru, an ocean liner that sailed between Japan and North America.
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