In Pictures: Rikugien Gardens: Garden Walk

From the top of Fujishiro-toge (Fujishiro Pass), you can look out over this corner of the large central pond.

Rikugien is a large Japanese garden that was built in the 1702 by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu for the Shogun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. The name pays tribute to the Chinese system of dividing poetry into six categories. (Read More: Garden Walk)