Nakajima Park (Japanese garden and Hassō-an pavilion)

photo by 663highland · CC BY 2.5

photo by 663highland · CC BY 2.5

The Hassō-an tea pavilion, from the seventeenth century, was Hokkaido's first National Treasure.

The Hassō-an tea pavilion was built in the Edo period in the residence of the master Kobori Enshū (a celebrated garden architect and tea master of the early seventeenth century) at Komuro, in what is now Shiga Prefecture. It passed in 1919 to a Sapporo businessman, was donated to the city and was moved here only in 1971. The garden around it is younger than the pavilion it contains: it was designed in 1987 by Kobori Sōkei, head of the Enshū school at the time, with stones and lanterns collected by the businessman.

The park is south of central Sapporo. The Hassō-an pavilion was Hokkaido's first National Treasure, later reclassified as an Important Cultural Property; the park is included among the hundred historic parks of Japan (日本の歴史公園100選).

🚉 Horohira-Bashi · 6 min walk

Sources: oniwa.garden

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