Rikugien
Most of this album at Pbase is pictures of people, but it includes several pictures of Rikugien. I think of Rikugien as a special sort of Japanese gardening - Japanese gardening on a grand scale.
We seldom read much about the Tokyo style of gardening, and about it's being different from that of Kyoto. One of the few references to the difference is in the Davidsonia magazine (Volume 1 No.2 - Summer 1970) where it says, of the Nitobe Memorial Garden in Vancouver -
"That the gardens of Tokyo, rather than the ancient temple gardens of Kyoto, served as the principal source of inspiration to Professor Mori is obvious from the extensive areas of lawn in the Garden."
Perhaps that should encourage some of us to be satisfied with lawns rather than trying to cultivate large areas of moss? For myself, I get considerable pleasure from contemplating our lawn especially when it's newly mown.
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