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Kenroku-en, founded in the 17th
century
and completed in 1819, was named after a garden
combining the six attributes of a perfect landscape garden:
spaciousness, seclusion, artifice, antiquity, watercourses and
panoramas. Kenroku-en
is
a strolling-style landscape garden with the
characteristics of a typical landscape garden of the Edo period. Originally the outer garden of Kanazawa-jô castle, it was
located on the slope facing the castle. In
1676, the 5th lord Maeda Tsunanori built a rest house at the site and
started to landscape a garden called Renchitei
in the surrounding area.
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