Tatsuda Park and ruins of Taishō-ji (立田自然公園・泰勝寺跡) 立田自然公園（泰勝寺跡）
The mausoleums of the Hosokawa lords and a tea room after a design by Tadaoki.
Throughout the Edo period the Taishō-ji was the family temple of the Hosokawa, lords (daimyō) of Kumamoto: the one where the ancestors rest. With the separation of Shinto and Buddhism in the early Meiji years the temple was closed and the place became a family villa; since 1955 the garden has been lent to the municipality, which opens it to the public. On 28/11/1995 the park, together with the Kitaoka site (the ruins of the Myōge-ji, in another part of the city), was declared a national historic site (史跡, shiseki) under the name ‘Tombs of the Hosokawa Lords of the Kumamoto Domain’ (熊本藩主細川家墓所). Among the ‘four mausoleums’ is that of Gracia, Tadaoki's wife, a Christian, who died in 1600. The Kōshōken tea room (仰松軒) dates from 1923, to designs by Tadaoki; the stone washbasin (chōzubachi) there is, according to tradition, the one Tadaoki used in Kyoto and that Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the tea master Sen no Rikyū are said to have used too. According to the municipality, the park also holds one of the three tombs attributed to Miyamoto Musashi in Kumamoto; it is not known which of the three is the real one.
Kumamoto
Tōkai-Gakuen-mae, Tsuboigawa-koen
