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 disposition of stepping-stones in such "stroll gardens" is a complex art, studied here by students at an agricultural high school in Chiba.

Author: Michael Yamashita

Photo size: 18.2 Mpixels (52.2 MB uncompressed) - 5280x3456 pixels (17.6x11.5 in / 44.7x29.3 cm at 300 ppi)

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Published in: Japan, Japanese Garden, In a Japanese Garden