Nabeshima Shigeyoshi, a chief retainer of the Nabeshima clan who was the daimyo feudal lords of the Saga domain, built this garden in 1845. He was entrusted by the Nabeshima clan to supervise the management of Takeo district, an important part of the Saga domain. Benefitting from the cliff of Mifune-yama hill, a symbolic landscape of Takeo, this garden with a path around a pond and woods is designed to be characterized by the different attractions from season to season. Prior to the landscaping, he invited a noted Japanese-style painter from Kyoto to draw a conceptional appearance of the garden as its completion.
A teahouse, 170-year-old wisteria arbor, 200 cherry trees, so many azaleas, 170-year-old maple tree and 300-year-old camphor tree are standing along the meandering mountain path from a pond at the foot of the hill to the hillside. These different kinds of flowers and trees add seasonal color to the garden.
The first photo shows Mifune-yama hill and the second one is the central pond at the foot of the hill.
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