Kōraku-en
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is a Japanese garden located in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture. It is one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, along with Kenroku-en and Kairaku-en. Korakuen was built in 1700 by Ikeda Tsunamasa, lord of Okayama. The garden reached its modern form in 1863.
Key facts
- Park.name
- Kōraku-en
- Park.native_name
- 後楽園
- Park.native_name_lang
- jp
- Park.photo
- File:250505 Korakuen Okayama Japan06s3.jpg
- Park.photo_caption
- View from Yuishinzan Hill
- Park.map
- Japan#Japan Okayama Prefecture
- Park.map_caption
- Location in Japan
- Park.type
- Urban park
- Park.location
- Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Kita-ku
- Area
- 14.4
- Body of water
- Asahi River
- Owned by
- Okayama Prefecture
- Official website
- okayama-korakuen.jp/section/china_tr
- Image
- 250505 Korakuen Okayama Japan06s3.jpg
- Significant event
- destruction
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- taxon found at location
- Chimonanthus praecox
- Commons category
- Kōraku-en
- inception
- 1700-00-00
- culture
- Genroku culture
- fee
- 200
- adjacent structure or building
- Okayama Castle
- native label
- 後楽園
- phone number
- +81-86-272-1148
- fax number
- +81-86-272-1147
- street address
- 〒703-8257 岡山市北区後楽園1-5
- different from
- Koishikawa Kōrakuen Garden
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Features of the Garden
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
is a Japanese garden located in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture. It is one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, along with Kenroku-en and Kairaku-en. Korakuen was built in 1700 by Ikeda Tsunamasa, lord of Okayama. The garden reached its modern form in 1863.
Zhu Zhiyu, one of the greatest scholars of Confucianism in the Ming dynasty and Edo Japan, helped to redesign the garden.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kōraku-en” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (2)
On the map
3 mapped locations