URAKU-EN

Inside this garden are highlighted some quality constructions, including Jo-year, a tea pavilion built in 1618 by the brother of Nobunaga Oda, Urakusai. Initially, Jo-an and Shōden-in Shoin were at Kennin-ji in Kyōto. They were moved to Inuyama by the Oda family. The Shoin is decorated with paintings by Sansetsu Kanō and Hasegawa Tōhaku, painters of the Momoyama period. The Jo-year is reached by using the roji (small path) which runs through the beautiful garden leading to the tea pavilion. An example of architecture full of subtleties, you see the wonderful simplicity of materials and the prodigious nudité of volumes.