Most beautiful Japanese garden: Adachi Museum of Art garden
The U.S. magazine Journal of Japanese Gardening has picked the Adachi Museum of Art garden in Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture, as the best Japanese garden for the ninth consecutive year.
The 165,000-square-meter site housing traditional moss and dry gardens has been selected as 2011’s finest Japanese garden, with specific mention given to its intensive grooming and maintenance efforts and staff attitude.
“Gardens are living and we cannot be at ease even for a moment. We will continue promoting Japanese culture through the garden, devoting our love to every single plant and grass,” Takanori Adachi, director of the museum, said Tuesday, commenting on the honor.
Journal of Japanese Gardening
The magazine, founded in 1998, has published the Japanese garden rankings since 2003.
In the Japanese garden, human handiwork can be seen clearly which has a natural color and rhythm. A truly interesting symmetry!
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