An Edo-period daimyo garden surviving in Fukui City, designated a National Special Scenic Site. The garden of Yokokan, used as a villa by the Matsudaira lords of the Fukui domain, is an elegant space in which a shoin (study hall) and a stroll-around pond garden are unified. The harmonious landscape of garden stones, trees, and architecture arranged around a central pond is regarded as a masterpiec…

Constructed in the mid-Edo period by Matsudaira Mitsumichi, lord of the Fukui domain, as the Osensuiyashiki (water garden villa). It was subsequently developed and expanded as a domain lord's villa and given the name Yokokan. Most of it was destroyed in the 1945 Fukui air raid, but restoration was c…