- History of Rikugi-en and the Iwasaki Family. If you do an Internet search of Rikugi-en Garden in Tokyo you will learn, over and over again, that it is an Edo stroll...
- After getting off at Komagome subway station, it is a short walk to the northeastern corner of Rikugi-en garden. The entrance on that corner is closed...
- He named it Rikugien Gardens. However, the name ‘Rikugi-en’ came from the famous Chinese poetry WAKA.
- The name Rikugi-en means Garden of the Six Principles of Poetry which comes from the idea of the six elements in waka poetry while en means garden or park.
- Rikugi-en is a Tokyo area stroll garden built in the Edo period by Samurai Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu. The garden name refers to the six rules of Waka poetry.
- The Rikugi-en in Komagome is one of Tokyo's most beautiful gardens. The land was given by shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi to his grand chamberlain...
- If you love Japanese gardens, we have to go to Rikugi-en. This gorgeous stroll garden features 88 real-life views from famous poems, and is artfully designed to...
- Completed around 1700, it was created for the mansion of a high-ranking samurai. dsc_0585. Rikugi-en means Garden of the Six Principles of Poetry.
- The Rikugi-en gardens are one of my favorites too! What’s more, you also get to check out Sugamo and the granny culture there!
- After doing some shopping (I found an odds-and-ends shop selling cheap origami paper), we made our way to the Rikugi-en Gardens.