Kenrokuen, located in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a strolling-style landscape garden which is counted as one of the three most famous gardens in Japan, along with Kairakuen in Mito and Korakuen in Okayama. Originally built as the o – outer garden of Kanazawa Castle in 1676, the garden was developed to perfection over generations by the lords of the Maeda clan. This magnificent garden with a vast area of 110,000 square meters has the six desirable qualities for an excellent garden: spaciousness, seclusion, artifice, antiquity, water-courses and panoramas.
(石川県金沢市にある兼六園は、水戸偕楽園、岡山後楽園と並ぶ日本三名園の一つに数えられる回遊式庭園である。元々1676年に金沢城の外郭に築庭され、代々の前田家の藩主た ちにより形づくられてきた。総面積11万㎡を誇る見事な庭園には、名園が持つべき6つの特性(六勝) 宏大・幽邃・入力・蒼古・水泉・眺望が揃っている)