#japantravel #japanesegarden #gardendesign #japaneseart #shimane Established in 1970 by the locally born industrialist and entrepreneur Zenkō Adachi (1899–1990), the Adachi Museum of Art in Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture, is famous for its extensive collection of ‘Nihonga’ (a style of Japanese painting) by the celebrated Japanese painter, Taikan Yokoyama (1868–1958) and its expansive Japanese garden that has attracted international acclaim. Adachi had humble beginnings in a poor farming family. Seeing hopelessness in his parents’ hardships, he embarked on a life of business at age 15 by manually carting charcoal from near his home to the port of Yasugi, a distance of some 15 km. Charcoal was in
#camellia #camelliajaponica #plants #japaneseculture #japantravel #yamaguchi #kyushu #kurume #tohoku #iwate #akirakurosawa #japanesemovie Camellias are such a common garden plant throughout much of temperate and subtropical Australia that many of us would not even bother to stop and take a good look at one. In Japan, however, it is a tree that is as much celebrated as the renowned cherry blossoms as a harbinger of spring. Camellia species are evergreen trees and shrubs found through parts of eastern and southern Asia, with the greatest variety found in southern China to the highlands of Southeast Asia. As many would be familiar, the tea plant is a camellia of Chinese origin, Camellia sinensi
