Kirk here with a share from Japan Today:

August 26, 2022 at 01:16 JST 2022

https://japantoday.com/category/features/travel/suizenji-garden-one-of-the-finest-of-japan’s-feudal-samurai-strolling-gardens-1

This is a pretty lengthy article and a very thorough introduction. The only problem I noticed is the following sentence:

“The site for the shrine was selected due to a spring in that location that had been recognized by the second Hosokawa daimyo, Tadaoki (1563-1646), father of Tadatoshi, as emitting the “sacred water of longevity.'”

Tadaoki wasn’t the second Hosokawa daimyo – he was with first in the Higo Hosokawa clan.

Otherwise, I think it’s really well done.

Suizenji Garden: One of the finest of Japan’s feudal samurai strolling gardens

During Japan’s feudal age, the favorite duck hunting ground for the successive lords of Kumamoto Castle and their warrior entourage was a spring-fed pond about one ri (four kilometers) southeast of the castle. In the 1630s, Tadatoshi Hosokawa (1586-1641), the latest of the daimyo feudal lords of t...

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