平成21年12月7日月曜日

小石川後楽園  Koishikawa Korakuen Garden. One of my favorite park.


暖かい日だったので、小石川後楽園に行ってみました。水戸黄門様(徳川光圀)の父にあたる徳川頼房が造園を始め、光圀の代になって完成した庭園です。

JR水道橋駅から歩いたのですが、ライブがあるらしく、入場券をもとめるAKB48系のたくさんの女の子がカードを持って立っていました。駅前の場外馬券場の入った黄色のビルをすぎたらもう後楽園。工事中の門に出たので正門に回ります。


This garden was made more than three hundred years ago.

It’s a typical MitoTokugawa Daimyo garden of Edo Period. Daimyo means the boss of Samurai. The garden which reflects the “lakes, rivers, mountains and rural districts” beautifully reveals the eloquence of Japanese landscapes.

京都のお寺さんというのは、こちらはあまり動かずに拝観するという形ですけれど、後楽園は回遊式築山泉水庭なので歩き回る必要があります。






紅葉が見事でした。 回遊式の庭園では、例えば小山を越えると別の世界を表現することになります。



でも、後楽園ドームはどこからでも見えていました。
12月の小春日和です。

石を積み上げただけの円月橋。重量は左右に分散されるから強度に関して何の問題も生じません。水面に映った橋を合わせて円月です。




菖蒲や蓮の沼もあります。

雪吊りの作業は終わったばかりとのことでした。




それなのに桜も咲いています。









ビルの谷間にはこんな緑地帯もありました。

5 件のコメント:

SkyTrail さんのコメント...

Olga さんのコメント...
Hi Masa :) How have you been these days? What is going on in Japan and in your life? I hope all is well and you are enjoying yourself. Good evening from Poland..

Olga さんのコメント...

Japanese garden... so close to perfection - so well planned, every detail, every shape, nothing is out of place. And the cherry blossoms.. I wish I could walk under real sakuras and feel the snow of the falling petals on my skin..

As for Nobel Prizes - I guess not only literature prizes have caused disasters... Ironically, Peace prizes seem to have been ridiculed this year...

お元気ですか?

jane さんのコメント...

it´s so beautiful. love all the pastels. thanks for visiting. hugs from spain!

Olga さんのコメント...

Hi Masa! Hope your lessons went well. I'd be curious to ask which level of physics this is - but you don't have to answer...

Rotating house sounds not so bad as long as I can control it. At least you can change the view :P

It's snowing here in Gdansk... And it get dark very early. Would you be able to survive Polar Night?

Olga さんのコメント...

Hi Masa. So you have also watched 'Lost in translation'... glad you also find it good... What I most like about the movie it is its indirectness. You come up with things and thoughts yourself as you watch it - no one tells you anything directly, yet after the movie so many thoughts were in my head, so many things to consider... I love movies which make me think and see different angles.

Teaching teens is a huge challenge, at least this is what my firends teachers say about Polish kids. it's not like it used to be before, the world is changing, so are the methods of teching.

Hope you are having good times... Are you going to celebrate Christmas?