Yawata City Shokado Garden and Art Museum is located near the national treasure Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shrine and is known as a famous garden in Kyoto and Rakunan. This is a facility connected to Shokado Shojo, a cultural figure who excelled in calligraphy, painting, and tea ceremony in the early Edo period, and also a priest at Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shrine, from which Shokado bento originated.
The approximately 2 square meter garden, where the world of Japanese wabi-sabi spreads out, includes the “Outer Garden” with three authentic tea rooms, the souan “Shokado” designated as a national historic site, and the Senbo Shoin. It is made up of an “inner garden” with over 40 types of bamboo, over 300 camellias, plums, cherry blossoms, hydrangeas, and autumn leaves, allowing you to enjoy the scenery of each season.
*Souan “Shokado” is scheduled to be open to the public for a limited time from September 2023, and from September 9 to March 2023, arrangements are being made to open it to the public on Sunday tea ceremonies in the tea room in the garden. Details will be announced on the Shokado website as soon as they are decided, so please check back.
AloJapan.com