Koishikawa-Korakuen is a seventeenth-century Japanses garden in Koishikawa, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Kanto Region, Honshu Island, Japan

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Koishikawa-Korakuen is a seventeenth-century Japanses garden in Koishikawa, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Kanto Region, Honshu Island, Japan. Koishikawa Korakuen (小石川後楽園, Koishikawa Kōrakuen) is one of Tokyo's oldest and best Japanese gardens. It was built in the early Edo Period (1600-1867) at the Tokyo residence of the Mito branch of the ruling Tokugawa family. Like its namesake in Okayama, the garden was named Korakuen after a poem encouraging a ruler to enjoy pleasure only after achieving happiness for his people. The garden was begun by Mito Yorifusa in 1629, and completed by his son Mito Mitsukuni. It was created with advice from the Chinese scholar Zhu Shun Shui, and incorporates elements of both Chinese and Japanese taste. It is one of three surviving daimyō gardens of the many that were created in Edo after it became the military capital of the country, the others being the Rikugi-en and the Hama Rikyū gardens.

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Location: Koishikawa, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Kanto Region, Honshu Island, Japan
Photo credit: © ILYA GENKIN / Alamy / Afripics
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