Gyokusen-inmaru Garden
Reconstructed private daimyo strolling garden with a twenty-two-meter stone wall and patterned waterfall cascade.
This guide to Gyokusen-inmaru Garden in Kanazawa opens with a private world that outsiders were never meant to see, walled off for two and a half centuries while the neighboring Kenrokuen was dressed up for guests. It traces the garden's name to Gyokusen-in, consort of the second Kaga lord, whose residence stood here from 1614, and follows how later Maeda lords, including the third, fifth, and thirteenth heads of the domain, kept reshaping the grounds for generations. Stand at the rail above the pond and look for the stonework pattern the guide calls Shikishi Tanzaku-zumi, alternating squares and rectangles staggered like torn paper.
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