Shūraku-en

is a Japanese garden located in the city of Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Shūraku-en was built in 1658 by Mori Nagatsugu, daimyō of Tsuyama Domain.

==History== Mori Nagatsugu invited gardeners of the Kobori Enshū school from Kyoto to create a daimyō garden with a walking path around a pond, based on the gardens of the Sento Imperial Palace of the Kyoto Imperial Palace. Construction work was from 1655 to 1658, and the resultant garden covered (256 meters from east-to-west by 292 meters form north-to-south), or approximately three times the size of the surviving portion of the garden today. Under the Matsudaira clan, who succeeded the Mori clan as rulers of Tsuyama, the garden was used as the Gotaimenjo (御対面所) for audiences or diplomacy. None of the buildings from the Edo period remain. The garden was given the name "Shūraku-en" in 1870.