Isuien Garden

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Isuien Garden (依水園, Isuien) is a Japanese garden located in Nara, the old capital of Japan near Kyōto. It has been preserved since its creation in the Meiji era, and is the only walking garden (kaiyushiki teien) in Nara.[1] It is divided into two sections, which were originally two separate gardens, that each features a pagoda. The gardens cover roughly 145,000 square feet (13,500 m2). In 1939, the two gardens were bought and combined by Jyunsaku Nakamura, a merchant of Nara, in order to provide a site for the attached Neiraku museum (寧楽美術館), which hosts a collection of traditional Japanese ceramics.