"As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit."

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Source : Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China”, p.11

Robert Fortune

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