Sengan-en / Shoko Shuseikan
鹿児島県
A 1658 daimyo garden with Sakurajima as borrowed scenery, designated UNESCO World Heritage for Shimazu Nariakira's pioneering industrialization
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1658
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Historic Site
Founded 1658
368 years
Overview
Established in 1658 as the Satsuma domain lord's villa, the garden at Sengan-en is a National Place of Scenic Beauty that borrows Sakurajima as its backdrop. Shimazu Nariakira built Japan's first modern industrial complex, the Shuseikan, on adjacent land, operating a reverberatory furnace, blast furnace, glass factory, and spinning mill. This Shuseikan project was inscribed as a UNESCO World Herit…
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Origins
Sengan-en (Iso Teien) was established in 1658 when Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the third lord of the Satsuma domain, built a villa at the Iso shoreline with a sweeping view of Sakurajima volcano. The garden was subsequently developed by successive domain lords into a celebrated daimyo landscape garden, frame…
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