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. This is a stroll garden with a pond which uses water from the irrigation channel along the street. It has common characteristics of other pond gardens in the castle town of Tsuwano. 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
ro70 Ushiroda, Tsuwano-chō, Kanoashi-gun, Shimane-ken 699-5605
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Tanaka Garden is one of about 20 residential gardens for the townspeople which remains until today in a castle town of the former Tsuwano Domain. It is believed that the garden was created when Miura Goroemon, who was a silk manufacturer, constructed the main house in 1886. The Tanaka Family, who created a fortune with silk textile manufacture, purchased the house in 1927 and the existing garden was created.
The garden is in the southwest of the store and the main house. It is a stroll garden around a pond so visitors can enjoy it not only by viewing it from the parlor but also by walking around the pond. There is a front gate to the garden between the store/main house on the street and a traditional storehouse with mud walls. After the front gate, there is a narrow front garden with stepping stones. The main house and the storehouse are connected with a connecting corridor and there is a small gate in the corridor. After going through the small gate, there is a lush pond garden with the mountain, where there are ruins of the Tsuwano Castle, in its background. There is a Tsukiyama (artificial hill) in the south shore of the pond. Standing stones on top and trees create an appearance of a secluded mountain. The stepping stones in the front garden are connected to the stepping stones from the shoe-removing stone in front of the main house. They will continue to go through an Inari shrine in the back of the garden and to the top of the artificial hill, and then around the pond. There are lanterns and garden stones here and there to make the scenery more enjoyable.