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Ukifune 1
The Ukifune Garden features a dry stream made of small stones.
Ukifune 2
The Ukifune Garden features a dry stream made of small stones.
Tsubo 3
Each of the hotel rooms has one or more pocket gardens (tsubo-niwa).
Ukifune 1
The Ukifune Garden features a dry stream made of small stones.
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Ukifune Garden
浮舟庭
Genji Kyoto Hotel
Kyoto, Japan
The central courtyard garden next to the lobby, the Ukifune Garden, is an allegorical interpretation of the eponymous chapter from the Genji Monogatari. The drifting boat in Genji represents the untethered evanescence of human experience. In the garden it is represented with a boat-like stone carrying a patch of moss. The boat-stone can also be interpreted as our own planet Earth, drifting through the universe.
Architecture: Geoffrey Moussas
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