"In
a Japanese Garden"
By Lafcadio Hearn
"No effort to create an impossible or pure ideal landscape is made in the Japanese Garden. Its artistic purpose is to copy faithfully the veritable landscape, and to convey the real impression that a real landscape communicates. It is therefore at once a picture and a poem; perhaps even more a poem than a picture. For as nature's scenery, in its varying aspects, affects us with sensations of joy or solemnity, of grimness or of sweetness, of force or of peace, so must the true reflection of it in the labor of the landscape gardener create not merely an impression of beauty, but a mood in the soul."
Excerpted
from:
The Atlantic Monthly
Volume 70, Issue 417
July 1892
A Special Gift From
The People of Matsue, Japan
Matsue, a Sister-City of New Orleans, has long been an enthusiastic supporter of our plans to construct a Japanese garden in New Orleans. This beautiful stonework is part of an incredibly generous contribution from the people of Matsue.
Upon completion, we hope our garden will become a special expression of friendship between the people of New Orleans and Matsue.
We look forward to revealing the rest of the stonework at the grand opening festivities.
Main Homepage for City of Matsue
Although the main English-language homepage for the City of Matsue is currently under construction. Some of the previous tourist information can still be found in English at the following site....