Works
Niwa in Hanareyama










Nowadays Hanare-yama is one of the famous summer-resorts, but one hundred years ago a wilderness formed by eruption stretched there. A Sukiya-style house was built in 1925 and at one point Shigenobu Okuma, one of the former prime minister owned it. The client not only restored and partially extended it but also requested us to renovate the garden of this villa.
It is awesome to landscape a garden in the woods. It is because the unadorned vigor nature produces is far beyond us.
We read the energy of this site and retouched the garden in hopes that it would last one hundred years as it is.
Of course it is impossible in the transient world to predict the future, we integrated ego and plants into the eternal cycle of birth and death. We expect that plants will take root there and grow into a major part of the scenery. Let’s just hope that our experience and emotion would accumulate into a new culture.