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Sakurai Samurai Mansion Garden

Sakurai Samurai Mansion Garden

 The garden at the Sakurai samurai mansion in Okuizumo, Shimane, has one of the biggest waterfalls of any Edo Period garden in Japan.Located high up in the remote Chugoku Mountains, the Sakurai were a high-ranking samurai family who moved into the area to control the very lucrative iron and steel production of the area.Many of the surviving buildings of their estate date back to the mid-Edo



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