Artworks

Garden of the Murin-an

Artwork · Ogawa Jihei · 1894 · garden

The retirement villa of Yamagata Aritomo (1838–1922), statesman and general of the Meiji period, in Kyoto: a strolling garden by the master gardener Ogawa Jihei (1860–1933) with views towards the Eastern Hills, its expanses of lawn adapted from British gardens, but mainly streams, ponds, mossy banks, mature trees and stones — a naturalistic Japanese sylvan idyll. 1 Mason 2005, p. 351, fig. 408. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.