Скачать или смотреть NINOMARU AND SEIRYŪ-EN GARDENS (NIJŌ CASTLE, KYOTO)

The castle area has several gardens and groves of cherry and Japanese plum trees. The Ninomaru garden was designed by the landscape architect and tea master Kobori Enshū. It is located between the two main rings of fortifications, next to the palace of the same name. The garden has a large pond with three islands and features numerous carefully placed stones and topiary pine trees.


The Seiryu-en Garden
The Seiryū-en garden is the most recent part of Nijō Castle. It was constructed in 1965 in the northern part of the complex, as a facility for the reception of official guests of Kyoto and as a venue for cultural events. Seiryū-en has two tea houses and more than 1,000 carefully arranged stones.


Bonsai is also an art. The relationship between the artistic forms of nature and what man can achieve through the modeling of bonsai is something wonderful. The boundary between natural beauty and that captured by the hand of the human being is very diffuse. We don't know where the bonsai begins and the art ends or where the art starts and the bonsai ends.