Oyaku-en
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is a medicinal herb garden in the city of Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The garden was designated a Place of Scenic Beauty by the Japanese government in 1932. It is also known as the .
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It sits within the topics 1380s establishments in Japan, Aizuwakamatsu and Buildings and structures in Fukushima Prefecture.
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- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Aizuwakamatsu
- Official website
- www.tsurugajo.com/oyakuen
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- Ochayagoten at Aizu Matsudaira's Royal Garden.JPG
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- Aizu Matsudaira's Royal Garden
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is a medicinal herb garden in the city of Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The garden was designated a Place of Scenic Beauty by the Japanese government in 1932. It is also known as the .
== History == The garden was first established in the 1380s. In the 1430s Ashina Morihisa, the 10th feudal lord of the Ashina clan, believing it to be a sacred place, kept the garden as a villa. In 1670, Hoshina Masatsune, the second daimyō of the Aizu Domain, cultivated various herbs in the garden, notably Korean ginseng. Private citizens were encouraged to grow herbs as well, so the garden became known as Oyakuen, or "medicinal herb garden". Today there are about 400 kinds of medicinal herbs and trees cultivated in and around the garden. Meguro Jotei, a landscape gardener during the Edo period and disciple of Kobori Enshū, designed the current layout of the garden to show nature in miniature, which is typical of a Japanese garden. The garden pond is named Shinji no Ike and is shaped like the kanji character for "heart" (心). The rectangular garden has a perimeter of about 540 m and an area of about 1.7 ha.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oyaku-en” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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