Imperial Gardens

Many imperial gardens exist in Asia including:

  • the old name of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, China, also known as the Gardens of Perfect Brightness
  • the Tokyo Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan

Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or gardens:

    “The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.”
    —Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)

    “The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences. Serpents, bears, hyenas, tigers rapidly vanish as civilization advances, but the most populous and civilized city cannot scare a shark far from its wharves.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)