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Adachi Museum of Art is located in Yasurai City, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, Shimane we talked about before.
In ancient times, it was called Izumo country, and the very famous Izumo Taisha Shrine in Japan is located here.
Many of the Japanese mythological systems known to later generations came from Shimane, such as the Yagyu Orochi, which is also known as the place where Japan was born, and as such still retains many of its myths as well as the traditional worship of the gods.
With its small size, long coastline, and few places to farm, Shimane has never been a core area of Japan, and many members of the Japanese Imperial family used to stay here.
By now, even with a lot of tourism resources, Shimane is still not developing very well.
Compared to Tottori, Okayama, and Yamaguchi, Shimane is not distinctive enough; compared to Osaka and Nara, Shimane is not well known;
Today, Shimane is the second least populated prefecture in Japan. (Tottori is dead last)
But exactly such a place is home to a stunning garden recognized by many as Japan's number one - the Adachi Art Museum.
🤗 Adachi Chuenkang
The Adachi Art Museum, founded in 1970, is an art museum that was created to display various works of art based on the art collection collected by Mr. Jeonkang Adachi, who was born in Yasurai City.
If one were to read this introduction alone, one would think one question.
"How can an art museum that collects works of art be recognized as the No. 1 garden in Japan?"
This brings us to the founder of the Adachi Art Museum, Adachi Chuenkang.
Born in 1899 in Nogi-gun, Shimane Prefecture, Adachi Chuen-yasu developed a great interest in Japanese painting when he was in elementary school. However, because of his family's poverty, he did not pursue a related career, but went out into society at an early age.
Starting out as a charcoal hauler, Adachi Chuenkang made his first fortune, and then he left Shimane.
He left Shimane for Osaka, the kitchen of the world and the commercial city of Kansai. In Osaka he worked in the textile, real estate, and automobile parts industries, and established his own company and became an industrialist.
However, his ambition was not in business management, but more in art collection.
In 1970, at the age of 71, Mr. Adachi Chikan returned to his hometown of Yasurai City, Shimane Prefecture, and founded the Adachi Art Museum, with the initial idea of "placing the works of art that I have collected all my life in the place where I was born."
He loved his collection so much that he wanted to design a Japanese garden museum that would be the only one of its kind in the world, where he could keep them.
For Mr. Adachi, a garden is also a painting and a collection.
Thus, the Adachi Art Museum was born, which is why it is the number one garden museum in Japan, even though it is an art museum.
The Adachi Art Museum is the largest garden in Japan with an area of 50,000 tsubo.
It has been ranked the No. 1 garden in Japan for 21 consecutive years by the American magazine "SUKIYA LIVING MAGAZINE" and has been hailed by many as "the most beautiful garden in Japan.
Let's visualize it in the picture.
This is the first museum in Japan, and it's really something.
The entire museum consists of six 50,000-square-meter gardens, including the "Kusansui Garden," "Shiso Aomori Garden," "Moss Garden," "Pond Garden," "Shurikan," and "Kamehuru Waterfall," and the landscape, which was not originally a part of the museum, has been visually blended with the rest of the scenery to reflect the unity of harmony.
As the first garden that comes into view after entering the garden, the small and beautiful Moss Garden gives the viewer a sense of well-behaved good old days, and the thin moss is full of vitality against the white fine sand.
Instead of a moss garden, it is actually a coast and a small island in the metaphor of Kusan Shui. White sand, moss, and green stones, a standard Japanese garden, the two shores are connected by a bridge made of two long stones, permeated with the Zen of Kushansui.
The Kusansui Garden is the main and largest garden in the Adachi Art Museum. "Kusansui" is one of the most characteristic landscapes in Japanese gardens. It uses stones instead of mountains and gravel instead of water, and expresses a vast natural mood in an abstract way that is calm and introspective.
When it clears up after a rainy day, if you are lucky, you can still see a rainbow, and you can laze around all day with this view.
There is also a very clever link between the indoor and outdoor areas, where the window frames are used as picture frames, just like a natural landscape painting.
The clear water in the garden is drawn from the Kamehameha Waterfall, which is not far away, and is basically the same in many migratory gardens in Japan.
The bank of the pond is also arranged according to the garden of the spring pond, piling up stones to build a bank, and two long stone slabs are built into a bridge sandwiched in the middle of the pond, with koi carp migrating leisurely in the water.
Shouri-an is the structure of the tea garden, you can step on the flying stones to a tea room. The shape of the building is based on the "Matsukintei" tea room at Katsurakuri Palace in Kyoto, and Adachi Chikang designed the building in such a way that it echoes the "Red Leaves" in the museum's collection, which is best viewed during the autumn foliage season.
The White Sand Aoimatsu Garden is the work to which Adachi Chuenkang has devoted the most effort.
The design of this garden is inspired by the famous painting "White Sand and Green Pines" by Yokoyama Daikan, a favorite of Adachi Chuenkang.
It stretches on a slightly undulating hillside, filled with soft white sand. In order to prevent the red pines, which grow on the sloping side of the mountain, from growing vertically and suffering here, the designer planted all of them diagonally on the ground.I can't say it's exactly the same, but it's 90% restored.
Kamezuru Falls, on the far side of the garden, is laid out in accordance with "Nachi no Taki" painted by Yokoyama Daikan in the museum's collection. Nachi Falls is a waterfall in Wakayama Prefecture with a drop of 133 meters, one of the three major waterfalls in Japan, and is part of the Kumano Kodo (Kumano Old Road), which is a World Heritage Site.
Although the Kamezuru Falls at the Adachi Museum of Art is only 15 meters high and the water is pumped up, it is similar to the Nachi Falls.
The Adachi Art Museum also houses 130 works of art by Yokoyama Daikan, the father of modern Japanese painting, as well as artifacts such as pottery by the Rusanjin people of Kitaoji, so don't miss it if you go.
Overall, the Adachi Art Museum is a place where you can take your time and enjoy it, and it is one of the most fascinating attractions in Shimane.
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