Seibi-en
Seibi-en
Seibi-en (盛美園) is a landscape garden and nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty in Hirakawa, Aomori Prefecture, Japan.[1] The garden was laid out between 1902 and 1911.[2][3] The gardens are attached to the Seibikan (盛美館), mansion of the Seito (清藤)[4] family, a Meiji-period fusion of Japanese and Western architectural styles, with an octagonal turret, a faux marble pillar in the tokonoma, and tatami floors.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ "盛美園". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
- ↑ "Seibien: National scenic beauty". Hirakawa City. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
- ↑ "Seibien". Aomori Prefecture. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
- ↑ http://seibien.jp/history/
- ↑ Finn, Dallas (1995). Meiji Revisited: The Sites of Victorian Japan. Weatherhill. pp. 210f. ISBN 0-8348-0288-0.
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