It was created in 1805 during the Bunka Bunsei Era in the Edo Period. The garden mainly constituted of plum trees when it was first opened, but later many herbaceous plants, that were noted in connection with poetries, were planted based on the ideas from the garden owners and intellectuals. This is a folksy garden different from the Daimyo gardens such as Koishikawa Koraku-en and Rikugi-en, yet it also has plenty of tasteful elements from intellectuals’ ideas.
cultural property : historic sites and places of scenic beauty as natural monuments
type : places of scenic beauty, historic sites
3-18-3 Higashimukōjima, Sumida-ku, Tōkyō-to 131-0032
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Sawara Kiku, who was an antique dealer, created this garden in the house he purchased from a direct retainer of the Shogun in Muko-jima in the Bunka Bunsei Era, when the merchant class culture flourished. It is a privately owned flower garden which was created by common people when they became richer financially and culturally around the end of the Edo Period. It was called the “New plum mansion” because more than 300 plum trees were planted when it was first open. It was also called “Hyakka-en (a garden with a hundred flowers)” because there were always flowers and blossoms all year around. Many herbaceous plants, that were noted in connection with the Manyo-shu and poetries, were planted based on intellectuals’ ideas. The layout that includes the building, pond, paths, and more than 30 stone monuments is remarkable and it is one of a few remnants of intellectuals’ gardens from the Edo Period. The building from the Edo Period burnt down in 1945, but the landscape still has the elegance of the time and it has a different type of beauty from other remaining Daimyo gardens.