Enamored of Mount Fuji after many visits, a feudal lord named Hosokawa Tadatoshi decided upon returning home to Kumamoto to e...

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

Author: Michael Yamashita

Photo size: 16.7 Mpixels (47.9 MB uncompressed) - 3378x4955 pixels (11.3x16.5 in / 28.6x42 cm at 300 ppi)

Photo keywords: algaae, broom, garden, Japan, Japanese Garden, Kenrokuen, men, National Geographic, Park, People, river, rock, Rocks, sotone, stones, stream, streambed, sweep, sweeping, sweeps, swept, wade, wades, wading, washer, washers, water, work, worker, workers

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