9 月 17 2008
依水園 Isuien Garden
敷地:奈良市水門町
創建:江戸時代(1670年代)
Location：Suimoncho,Nara City
Establishment:Edo period(1670s)
感想 Impression
依水園は江戸時代の1670年代に作庭された奈良市唯一の池泉回遊式庭園です。池は園の南を流れる吉城川から給水され、敷地は東西に長く西側の前園と東側の後園から構成されている。
玄関を通って園内に入ると、まず前園の池が広がり、池向こうの西端に茅葺きの田舎家「三秀亭」があります。前園はこの三秀亭を中心に前面の池の護岸の石組みと池に浮ぶ二つの中島や石橋、要所に配置された灯籠など縮小江戸時代の作庭を偲ばせる雰囲気があります。園内を西から東に走る流れに沿って路地を進んでいくと自然と後園に導かれます。すると視界が一気に広がる開けた庭が展開し、東方のツツジの刈り込みの向こうに浮び上がる東大寺南大門の雄姿や遠く若草山、春日山、御蓋山など奈良の山々が借景として取り入れられた素晴らしい眺望が楽しめます。池を中心とした作庭は前園と同じですが、開けた庭に広がる池の中央に浮ぶ中島とその向こうにあるなだらかに隆起した芝山が遠景の山と連なり、庭園に深い奥行き感をもたせているようです。依水園は世界遺産の東大寺に囲まれた環境にあり、現在も古の奈良の景観を守りながら四季の趣きを楽しめる庭園として維持されています。
Isuien Garden is the only garden which migrates in the pond of Nara City which was done with the landscape in the 1670s of the Edo period. Watered from Yoshiki river which flows in the south at Garden by the pond and Site’s consisting of pre- garden in the west side and rear garden in the east side long east and west.
When going in in the park via the vestibule, pre-garden’s pond spreads almost and there is bower ” Sanshu-tei ” of the thatch at the end in pond that west. Pre-garden has the atmosphere to make remember landscape in the reduction Edo period such as 2 corner Nakashima which occurs to the arrangement of a garden stone and the pond of the seawall at the pond in the front mainly in these Sanshu-tei and the stone bridge, the garden lantern which was arranged in the important position. It is in the park led to the nature and rear Garden when advanced at the alley according to the flow which runs from the west to the east.Then, the garden to have opened where the sight spreads at a breath spreads out and it is possible to enjoy the wonderful view which the mountains in Nara such as the majestic figure in Todai-ji Nandai-mon which finishes occurring of the pruning of the azalea in the east over there and far Mt.Wakakusa, Mt.Kasuga, Mt. Mikasa was introduced to as the shakkei. The landscape centered on the pond is the same as pre-garden, but the mountain at the rising lawn which is the over there ranges with the mountain of the distant view with Nakashima which occurs to the center of the pond which spreads to the garden to have opened and seems to be making a garden have a deep depth sense. Isuien Garden is maintained as the garden where it is possible to enjoy a flavor in the four seasons while it is in the environment which was surrounded to Todai-ji at the world’s cultural and natural heritage and keeps a view in Nara which is old at present, too.
参照文献
「西澤文隆小論集Ⅲ庭園論」/西澤文隆著/相模書房/1976 ”The short essay collection III garden theory by Fumitaka Nishizawa “/written by Fumitaka Nishizawa/published by Sagami shobou/1976
 東大寺南大門を借景として眺める View of the Todai-ji Nandai-mon as the shakkei |
| 送信者 日本の伝統建築 Traditional architecture in Japan |