Sengan-en
Sign in to saveis a Japanese garden attached to a former Shimazu clan residence in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Designated a Place of Scenic Beauty, together with the adjacent Shōko Shūseikan it forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining. Sengan-en is managed by Shimadzu Ltd.
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Japan
- Area
- 5.0
- Body of water
- Kagoshima Bay
- Founded by
- Shimazu Mitsuhisa
- Official website
- www.senganen.jp
- Image
- Isoteien-sakurajima2.jpg
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- name in kana
- せんがんえん
- Commons Institution page
- Sengan-en
- Commons category
- Sengan-en
- inception
- 1658-00-00
- maintained by
- Satsuma Domain
- social media followers
- 5592
- street address
- 鹿児島県鹿児島市吉野町9700-1
- offers view on
- Sakurajima
- official shop URL
- shop.senganen.jp
- number of viewers/listeners
- 340510
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is a Japanese garden attached to a former Shimazu clan residence in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Designated a Place of Scenic Beauty, together with the adjacent Shōko Shūseikan it forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining. Sengan-en is managed by Shimadzu Ltd.
==History== The Sengan-en residence was built by in 1658. The name is derived from a supposed resemblance to an eponymous feature on Long Hu Shan. In 1736 added a water feature and moso bamboo, obtained from China via the Ryūkyū Kingdom. During the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods, the residence housed visiting dignitaries including Katsu Kaishū, Willem Huyssen van Kattendijke, and Pompe van Meerdervoort in 1858, Harry Smith Parkes in 1866, Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich and Prince George of Greece in 1891, and the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn in 1906, and Edward VIII in 1922.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sengan-en” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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