Shōkadō Garden and Museum 松花堂庭園・美術館
The garden can be visited, the hermitage cannot: closed for works, with no reopening date.
A city garden of about 20,000 square metres built around the hermitage of Shōjō, a seventeenth-century monk and painter, priest of the nearby Iwashimizu Hachimangū shrine and one of the ‘three brushes of the Kan'ei era’, that is, the three most celebrated calligraphers of early seventeenth-century Japan. The four-compartment lacquered box he used as a drawing case gave its shape, three centuries later, to the shōkadō bentō, the meal box divided into four. Next to the garden is a municipal museum with rotating exhibitions.
Kyoto
中央センター前, 大芝・松花堂前
