Cherish a moment of tranquility
Tour around modern architecture leveraging the tea ceremony And a garden featuring a path around a pond.
Cherish a moment of tranquility
Tour around modern architecture leveraging the tea ceremony And a garden featuring a path around a pond.
Cherish a moment of tranquility
Tour around modern architecture leveraging the tea ceremony And a garden featuring a path around a pond.
Cherish a moment of tranquility
Tour around modern architecture leveraging the tea ceremony And a garden featuring a path around a pond.
Cherish a moment of tranquility
Tour around modern architecture leveraging the tea ceremony And a garden featuring a path around a pond.
Cherish a moment of tranquility
Tour around modern architecture leveraging the tea ceremony And a garden featuring a path around a pond.
Cherish a moment of tranquility
Tour around modern architecture leveraging the tea ceremony And a garden featuring a path around a pond.
Cherish a moment of tranquility
Tour around modern architecture leveraging the tea ceremony And a garden featuring a path around a pond.
Cherish a moment of tranquility
Tour around modern architecture leveraging the tea ceremony And a garden featuring a path around a pond.
Cherish a moment of tranquility
Tour around modern architecture leveraging the tea ceremony And a garden featuring a path around a pond.
We have implemented appropriate infection prevention measures based on the Tottori Prefecture's version of measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
In order for visitors to enjoy the garden with peace of mind, we have implemented the following measures. We ask for the understanding and cooperation of all visitors to the park.
Alcohol for hand sanitizing is provided throughout the garden to ensure thorough hand sanitizing.In addition, staff members are required to take their temperatures and wear masks daily.
The entire staff is working hard to prevent the spread of new coronavirus infection. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding.
Latest information
- Nov.15.2024 ・・・
This year's autumn foliage is late, and now is the best time to view the leaves in the garden. At the matcha tea ceremony, we served our custom-made Japanese sweets (named “Nanzan” after the tea ceremony house “Chatei Nanzanso”) in seasonal Wajima-nuri bowls owned by the Ogawa family. Visitors to the garden enjoy the tea and the various maki-e lacquer paintings on the bowls, which have been well received.
- Sep.01.2023 ・・・
Professor Takahiro Naka of Kyoto University of Arts, Director of the Research Center for Japanese Gardens and Historical Heritage, invited our Director, Chizuko Nezuzu, to give a lecture at this year's Garden Study Course (held in Kyoto on August 19 and 20, 2023). The lecture, entitled “Kurayoshi City Garden: Ogawa's Garden and Tatsumi Tatsumi Takenosuke,” was a valuable opportunity to introduce the charm of the Japanese garden that decorates the region to gardeners, garden specialists (including university professors and people in charge of cultural assets at government offices) and enthusiasts who had gathered from across the country.- Apr.26.2023 ・・・
English site has been released.- Sep.30.2022 ・・・
Ogawa’s Garden KansuienCherish a moment of tranquility
Tour around modern architecture leveraging the tea ceremony And a garden featuring a path around a pond.Ogawa's garden "Kansuien" is a National Registered Monument and Tottori Prefectural Designated Cultural Property Place of Scenic Beauty. This garden was designed by Teiichi Ogawa, one of the representative industrialists and politicians of modern Kurayoshi. It is also the place where Mr. Ogawa, who deeply loves culture and the arts, invited intellectuals and business people and held tea ceremonies and kaiseki.
There is a tea ceremony room, artworks, and historical heritage in the garden, and it is a valuable garden that had a great influence on the tea ceremony and gardening culture of Tottori Prefecture as a representative work of the gardener Takenosuke Tatsumi.About KANSUIEN
Modern architecture and a garden that features a path around a pond where culture and artists are alive.
It was built by Tatsumi Takenosuke, a gardener from Kobe assigned by Teiichi Ogawa, the sixth-generation head of the Ogawa family, “Nanzanso”, a tea house located in the center of the south side of the park, has cultural heritage such as valuable paintings, sculptural ceramics by Tatehiko Suga, Kaiki Hasegawa, and Bernard Leach.
It is a garden where culture and art are alive, where Mr. Ogawa, who laid the foundation for Kurayoshi's modernization, had a great influence on the progress of culture and art.
You can also experience matcha (powdered green tea) with a view of the garden.Attraction
Photo Gallery
Please come to Kansuien,
not only for sightseeing, but also for the tea ceremony, photo sessions, and other events.As sightseeing, you can enjoy walking around the garden, appreciating precious works of art and drinking matcha green tea at Nanzanso. It can also be used for tea ceremonies, open-air tea ceremony, family commemorative events (betrothal, meeting, pre-coming-of-age ceremony, Shichi-go-san celebration, matchmaking seats, celebrations, memorial services, etc.), moon-viewing parties, exhibitions, photo sessions, and other meetings.
Please spend a special time in a special spaceAdmission Guide
- Sep.01.2023 ・・・
