Kyu-Shiba-Rikyu Teien（旧芝離宮庭園）
A Samurai Garden Amid Tokyo’s Skyline Kyū-Shibarikyū is one of Tokyo’s oldest surviving pond-strolling gardens (回遊式泉水庭園), created in the Edo period on land reclaimed from Tokyo Bay in 1658. Originally the residence of Ōkubo Tadatomo, a daimyō and official of the Tokugawa shogunate, the garden follows a layout typical of samurai-style architecture (武家造, Buke-zukuri). After […]