Saitō Garden (Ishinomaki)

Saitō Garden
Saitōshi-teien (齋藤氏庭園)
Entry to Saitō Garden
Type Japanese garden
Location Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan
Coordinates 38°30′24″N 141°11′35.76″E / 38.50667°N 141.1932667°E / 38.50667; 141.1932667Coordinates: 38°30′24″N 141°11′35.76″E / 38.50667°N 141.1932667°E / 38.50667; 141.1932667
Created Meiji period
Status National Place of Scenic Beauty

Saitō Garden (齋藤氏庭園, Saitōshi-teien) is a Japanese garden in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. It was established in the Meiji period by the ninth-generation head of the Saitō family, a prominent regional landlord. The Saitō clan had served the Date clan of Sendai Domain in various local administrative capacities, and had also amassed a fortune by brewing sake, and as pawnbrokers.

The garden uses the hillside behind for borrowing of scenery ("shakkei").[1] In one of the traditional-style houses inside the gardens there is a Jōmon museum.[2] In 2005 Saitōshi-teien was designated a national Place of Scenic Beauty.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "齋藤氏庭園(さいとうしていえん)". Miyagi Prefecture. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "Ishinomaki City - Sightseeing". Ishinomaki City. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  3. ↑ "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
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