week3 kokoen

Today, I will explain Kokoen. Kokoen is a Japanese park in Himeji Castle.

In 1992, Koukoen built to commemorate a centenary of municipal organization. Koukoen was spent three years to complete. Kokoen is has both keeping cultural assets and practical. Koukoen is new culture aria.

Excavations took place in 1985. The garden consists of nine different look of making use the allotment of land, its area is about 10,000 square meters there.

Plan of the garden was supervised by Professor Nakamura Hajime of Kyoto University.

The garden is arranged "Sou-ju-an" supervised by Mr.Sen Soushistu who is the main branch of a family of Urasenke .

This garden is a circuit style garden linked by a pond or flow of water. The biggest feature is that it against the background of Himeji Castle

Garden is against the rich virgin forest in the west Himeji Castel. It created a graceful landscape it is history and nature are in harmony.

Kokoen is recreated building of the Edo period. So Kokoen is a location aria of a costume drama, saga. For example, Mito-komon, Abarenbo-Shogun, O-oka-etizen, and Rurouni-kenshin.

 Kokoen has many highlight arias.

Kassuiken: we can eat and drink watching beautiful yard.

A passage connecting two building: when we walk ,we can hear sound of like a drum. 
And view of right and left is an impressive scene.

Cho-on-sai: we can enjoy a nice view of beautiful moon in autumn.

Yard of residence: it is the biggest yard with the background of Himeyama natural forest.

Nae-no-niwa: This is a traditional Japanese garden.it stationed a tea-ceremony room.

Souju-an: It is a real tea-ceremony room. In the real tea-ceremony room build to a castle tower of Himeji Castle, we can taste a powdered green tea.

Nagare-no-hira-niwa: this garden is free and easy, bright.

Natsukinoniwa: in this garden, a deciduous tree is planted. So we enjoy watching fresh verdure and colored leaves.

Matsu-no-miya: this yard is imaged Akamatsu woods.

Hanano-miwa: the garden of the Edo period are grown in this garden.

Tukiyama-chisen-no-niwa: this is a traditional style japanease garden with maple and pine trees.

Takenoniwa: 15 kinds of bamboos is planted. It imagines a Japanese umbrella.

Koukoen holds various events. For example, “an evening of firefly” is one of events. The best time to see the fireflies is middle July to late May. many Fireflies fly 11 pm from getting dark after dusk. Fireflies fly around when no moonlight cloudy, sultry weather and no wind. When the temperature is low, strong wind and the rain, a bright moonlight night, fireflies do not fly much. Fireflies fly in the garden is very beautiful.

Are you interested in Kokoen? I want you to have a little interesting and to go to Kokoen.　I have been to Kokoen many times. There are beautiful garden. Beautiful garden make us feel at home. We are busy to study, work, hausework, and so on. We are tired, so we could not feel natural. We should listen to the sounds of nature.

Thank you for your reading.

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