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"Sankei-en Wisteria" (三渓園の藤), 2011, by Morimura Rei/Ray (森村 玲), a Tokyo based woodblock artist, born (in Tokyo) in 1948.
Sankei-en (三溪園; literally, the "Three Creeks Garden") is a traditional Japanese-style garden in Naka Ward, Yokohama, Japan, which opened in 1906Sankei-en was designed and built by Tomitaro Hara (原富太郎, 1868–1939), known by the pseudonym Sankei Hara, who was an affluent silk trader from Saitama Prefecture. Almost all of its buildings in the garden are historically significant structures bought by Hara himself in locations all over the country, among them Tokyo, Kyoto, Kamakura, Gifu Prefecture, and Wakayama Prefecture. Ten have been declared Important Cultural Property, and three more are Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan designated by the City of Yokohama.Badly damaged during World War II, the garden was donated in 1953 to the City of Yokohama, which entrusted it to the Sankeien Hoshōkai Foundation (三溪園保勝会, Sankeien Hoshōkai). Sankei-en was then restored almost to its pre-war condition.
#Sankei-en (三溪園; literally the Three Creeks Garden)#Wisteria (藤の花)#Morimura Rei/Ray (born 1948)#Japanese art#Japanese woodblock printmaking#Japan#jadedinjapanworld#Tokyo#Yokohama#Tara Tomitaro (1868-1939)
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