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Its spacious grounds are a magnificent example of the “strolling” gardens favored during the Edo period.
The most satisfying objects in the Edo show are those that find ways to reconcile the two opposing tendencies--Zenlike austerity and floating-world flamboyance--of the period.
The Edo period extended from the end of the civil wars of the 16 th century (the source of all samurai films) and the consolidation of power under the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu, to the Meiji Restoration, when Japan adopted something resembling a parliamentary monarchy under the emperor.
After 1868 that center grew even stronger, when the movement known as the Meiji Restoration overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate and the imperial court moved to Edo.
To the south is the residence of the Abbot — by tradition an imperial prince — with a particularly fine garden in the style of the Edo period.
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