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Shikina-en

Naha, Japan · built 1799

The gardens of Shikina-en are located on a small hill to the south of Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa. The residence and its gardens are also known as Sichina-nu-udun (Okinawan: /) or Nan'en (Okinawan, lit. 'the Southern Gardens'), as opposed to the Tōen (Okinawan: /, lit. 'the Eastern Gardens') of Uchaya-udun (Okinawan: /), laid out on a small hill east of Shuri Castle in 1677. In 1992 Hiroshi Shō, the great-grandson of Shō Tai, the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, donated the royal mausoleum of Tamaudun and Shikina-en to the City of Naha.

Garden data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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