The garden’s main scenery is a pond that stretches from the east to the south of the Shoin. It uses a pine forest outside the garden as borrowed scenery, and has stone arrangements at the top of a waterfall, a Horai island, and pond edges. The garden preserves the scenery style of the early Edo Period, indicating how landscaping techniques evolved in the Hoki region.
cultural property : historic sites and places of scenic beauty as natural monuments
type : places of scenic beauty
1518 Uno, Yurihama, Tohaku District, Tottori 682-0701
Tel：0858-35-2003
The Osaki Family was a village headman responsible for temples, shrines and their religious administration for the Tottori Domain in the Edo Period.
During the time of the 5th chief, Kiyo’emon, the family moved to the current location and newly constructed the main residence, a Buddhist alter, a few cellars, and a Mon-nagaya (Nagaya-mon).
The garden is in the southeast of the main residence with a thatched roof. A pond stretches from east to south, and to the left, a dry waterfall is arranged in a triad-stone style. A Chozubachi (water basin) made of a natural stone is placed in the front riht corner. Mature trees of Japanese black pines (Pinus thunbergii) and sago palms (Cycas revoluta) grow on the other side of the pond with approximately 30 varieties of other plants such as dwarf azaleas (Rhododendron indicum) and cleyeras (Ternstroemia gymnanthera).
The garden preserves the scenery of the early Edo Period, indicating how landscaping techniques had evolved in the Hoki region.