Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens
Edo-period strolling garden of ponds, hills and a stone bridge shaped by a Ming loyalist exile.
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This guide to Koishikawa Korakuen in Tokyo follows Zhu Shunshui, a Ming scholar stranded in Japan after fleeing Manchu conquest, and the young lord Tokugawa Mitsukuni who summoned him to Edo as a teacher in 1664. It traces Mitsukuni's boyhood fascination with a tale of loyalty unto ruin, and how the exile and his patron shaped this garden together, down to the name they gave it. Listen for the stone bridge by the water as you walk toward it.
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