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To keep gardens pristine, workers even remove stray pine needles.

Author: Michael Yamashita

Photo size: 18.0 Mpixels (51.6 MB uncompressed) - 5201x3466 pixels (17.3x11.6 in / 44x29.3 cm at 300 ppi)

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To ensure that the waters run crystal clear in the streambed at Kenrokuen, "river washers" labor from morning till dusk, swee...

To keep gardens pristine, workers even remove stray pine needles.

Begun in 1687 for a feudal lord in Okayama, the 32-acre garden was modeled on its then famous namesake in Tokyo. The correct ...