Garden
The Japanese-style garden takes up about half the land area (approx. 33060sq.m). Gardener Jihei Ogawa 7th created the garden over 20 years of period, and the water used in the ponds are provided from the Lake Biwa Canal. It is known that rare species (in Japan) such as the Acheilognathus cyanostigma, Yellow pond turtle and the Japanese pond turtle live around the ponds. Visitors may feed these fish and turtles with food sold around the ponds.
Read more about this topic: Heian Shrine
Famous quotes containing the word garden:
“When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls, and the stars begin to flicker in the sky,”
—Mitchell Parish (1901–1993)
“There’s always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“There are no ninety degree angles in the Garden of Delight.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)