Castles · Scottish Highlands
Cowden Japanese-Style Garden
Cowden Japanese-Style Garden in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.
M J Richardson — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Cowden Japanese-Style Garden is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Japanese garden at Cowden is located near the town of Dollar in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, on the grounds of the Cowden Castle estate. It was created in 1908 by Scottish traveller Ella Christie, but it was closed to the public in 1955 after an act of extensive vandalism. After undergoing prolonged restoration under the supervision of Professor Masao Fukuhara of the Osaka University of Arts and with involvement of local teams and visiting students, the garden reopened in 2019. The garden is the only one of its type in the world to have been designed by a Japanese woman, horticulturist Taki Handa. It was tended over the years by Japanese gardener Shinzaburo Matsuo and supervised on several occasions by the Hereditary Head of the Soami School of Imperial Garden Design at Nagoya, Jijo Suzuki. The Cowden Garden is now managed by the Cowden Castle SCIO charitable trust.
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Background
Description
The garden, which was initially named in Japanese as Sha Raku En (the place of pleasure and delight) was later described in 1925 by Professor Jijo Suzuki as 'the most important Japanese garden in the Western World'. The garden itself is a stroll garden consisting of several acres of Japanese influenced landscape with a perimeter path around the small artificial loch. There are two ornamental bridges — one zigzag (yatsuhashi) and another one arched (sorihashi) — both symbolising the human journey through life. At the far end of the loch, there is a dry garden (karesansui), with four mossed rock islands presented as turtles and surrounded by raked pebbles. A number of different stone lanterns…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 56.1797, -3.6420
- District
- Clackmannanshire
- Postcode
- FK14 7PJ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar
Sources
- wikidata: Q108757337 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Japanese garden at Cowden (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Cowden Japanese-Style Garden?
- Cowden Japanese-Style Garden is in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom (postcode FK14 7PJ).
- Does Cowden Japanese-Style Garden charge admission?
- Cowden Japanese-Style Garden typically charges admission. Check the official site for current ticket prices and opening hours.
- How do I get to Cowden Japanese-Style Garden?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode FK14 7PJ. It sits within the Dunfermline and Dollar parliamentary constituency.