In a castle town of the former Tsuwano Domain, this garden was created in the residential area for the townspeople which prospered from the end of the Edo Period to the mid-Meiji Era. There is a small front garden inside the front gate, which faces the street, and a main garden in the east of the main house. This garden demonstrates the development of the landscaping culture in the modern Tsuwano and it has a trace of a merchant’s house from the early modern period.
cultural property : registered monuments
type : registered monuments
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Zaima Garden is one of about 20 residential gardens for the townspeople which remains until today in a castle town of the former Tsuwano Domain. This is a typical traditional tradesman’s mansion in Tsuwano, which was built in 1899. It is believed that the foundation of the garden was created along with the store, where they sold alcoholic beverages, and the current main residence.
There are a front garden and the main garden. The front garden has a lantern and a pine tree inside the front gate. The stone arrangements with large stones around the pine tree create a conceptual space of emptiness. The path through the garden gate will take visitors to the small garden in front of the warehouse. The main garden is in the east of the back parlor, which is in the main building along with the room for the Buddhist altar. Two small basin-shaped ponds, garden stones, a lantern, a Tsukubai (a washing basin), etc. are arranged near the eaves and stepping stones are placed around them. More stepping stones are placed in the area from the shoe-removing stone of the back parlor to the back of the garden. They continue to go around two Tsukiyama (artificial hills), which are connected with a stone bridge. The view of the garden from the back parlor consists of a Kasuga lantern and several standing stones on top of the Tsukiyama in the innermost place, and they are connected to the scenery of Mt. Aono behind the garden in the distance.