photo by 663highland · CC BY 2.5
photo by 663highland · CC BY 2.5
The name comes from six wild flowers painted on a confectioner's wrapping paper.
In this 100,000 m² garden the six wild flowers painted by the artist Sakamoto Naoko for the wrapping paper of the Rokkatei confectionery (among them the Ezo gentian, the dog rose and the katakuri) bloom one after another from spring to summer: they are the ‘Tokachi Rokka’ that give their name to both the company and the garden. The memorial to the artist, in the garden, also displays the artist's last work, left unfinished, of the birch wood on the moorland.
The garden is in Nakasatsunai, on the Tokachi plain, and is run by the Rokkatei confectionery, which has devoted a botanical space there to the subjects of its best-known illustration.
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