When you see this sign, head up the steps to the Garden.
Marking the entrance to the garden.
A map of the tourist attractions of Ichikawa
The entrance to Ichikawa Municipal Man’yō Botanical Garden.
The path into the garden.
Informatation about the park is in Japanese
The garden is formally laid out.
The garden pond.
A place to rest on the way round the garden.
Path across the stream
Garden hedges
NIra
Aoi
Sanekazura
A place to rest to enjoy the lawn.
Peach tree and stupa
The main entrance to Akatsuka Botanical Garden
The entrance to the Garden of Man’yō and Medicinal Plants
Time to set off along the paths.
The pond and marsh area of the garden.
Reeds
Sanekazura
Paths through the garden.
A place to sit and enjoy the plants.
A place to sit and take your ease.
Trees and poems
Sakaki – Shintō’s sacred tree.
Plants and poems
Composed on the evening of the Seventh day.
織女にかしつる絲の打ちはへて年のをながくこひやわたらむ
tanabata ni
To the Weaver Maidoffer thread
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune (Fl. 898-922)
Composed on the evening of the Seventh Day.
年ごとにあふとはすれどたなばたのぬるよのかずぞすくなかりける
tosi goto ni
Every year
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune (Fl. 898-922)
Composed at a poetry competition held by Her Majesty, the Empress, during the same era.
契りけむ心ぞつらきたなばたの年にひとたびあふはあふかは
tigiriken
The vow
Fujiwara no Okikaze
During the Kanpyō Era [889-897], on the night of the Seventh Day, His Majesty [Emperor Uda] commanded the gentlemen waiting upon him to compose poems; Tomonori composed this poem in place of someone else.
天河あさせしら浪たどりつつわたりはてねばあけぞしにける
ama no kaFa
The River of Heaven has
Ki no Tomonori (Fl. ca. ?850-?904)
Topic unknown.
こひこひてあふ夜はこよひあまの河きり立ちわたりあけずもあらなむ
koFikoFite
I’ve yearned and yearned and,
Anonymous
Topic unknown.
天河紅葉をはしにわたせばやたなばたつめの秋をしもまつ
ama no gaFa
Heaven’s River,
Anonymous
Topic unknown.
久方のあまのかはらのわたしもり君わたりなばかぢかくしてよ
Fisakata no
On the eternal
Anonymous
Topic unknown.
秋風の吹きにし日より久方のあまのかはらにたたぬ日はなし
akikaze no
Autumn winds
Anonymous
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