Show an ancient tokyo garden the year old gen garden formerly privately owned was donated to the tokyo municipality A striking feature of the 23 acre beauty spot is its big pond with unusual arrangements of rocks shrubs shrub and trees centered by the elysian isle the garden laid out about 1700 around the villa of yoshiyasu yasu feudal lord of kawagoe follows the elaborate pattern worked cc out by its owner A gifted classical scholar yoshiyasu yasu set out to reproduce the many scenic places berred to in the ancient poem poeju 1 had read arbors tea houses raa plants and trees as well as 91 gifts ts from neigh neighboring borine barnns went into gen it is said that YON yasu built in miniature some 88 83 gar den scenes described in his favor favorit lt poems |