New eBook! The Ninomaru Garden of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo
It’s already been a week since I am back to work and it passed too fast! However, now I had time to finish and publish our new eBook about the […]
Category Archives: Gardens
New eBook! Mukōjima-hyakkaen
Summer arrived in Japan! Finally it got really really hot and the mosquito are out and try to keep us away from gardens. But who is a real garden lover […]
“Weed” is subjective – “Dokudami” in Japan
The first time I came in contact with Houttuynia cordata was during my work in the Botanical Garden in Hamburg / Germany. However, it was not the common one, […]
New eBook! Tonogayato-teien
It is the end of the month and I guess by now you all already know that this is the time for a new eBook! For June I chose to […]
The most popular plants in Japanese private gardens
It’s been almost two months since I’m working in Real Japanese Gardens. Few times per week we spend in the construction sites doing maintenance and planting. In this article I would […]
New eBook! Happo-en
Already one month passed since I published the last eBook.. It seems like yesterday! However, I had to think hard which eBook to publish next but decided on Happō-en because […]
New eBook! Nezu-Museum
The garden of the Nezu-Museum is not the only museum garden in our series of “Secret Gardens in Tokyo”. It may seem odd to add such gardens, however, most of […]
The Three Great Gardens of Japan (日本大三名園)
Japanese people love top lists since ancient times. Very important is the Top 100, which could already experienced during the Edo period like in Ukiyo-e woodblock printings like the 100 […]
New eBook! Kyu-Furukawa Teien
With the last eBook about Shōren-in I made an exception, but now I continue with the “Secret gardens of Tokyo” series! This time I researched and wrote about the Kyu-Furukawa […]
The Nezu Museum in contrast to so-called Japanese gardens in the western world.
On a weekend day in early March I visited the Nezu Museum in Tokyo’s Aoyama area. I am not a great fan of museums. I never was. While I have […]
