May 21, 2013 - 1 min read

Kamakura Museum of Literature

Rose Garden and Writers' Museum make a nice combination

By Tomoko Kamishima

Community writer

The museum is only a 10-minute walk from Hase Kannon Temple, and 20-minute walk from Yuigahama Beach!

House, roses and lawn garden

This variety of rose is named “Zen”

This tunnel is a part of this villa

The roses burst into bloom in mid May

Visitors enjoying a pleasant afternoon

Nice walking path in the garden

My favorite rose, “Angela”

Rickshaw tour guides researching the garden

May is the season of the rose

Originally a summer villa of Marquis Maeda (15th head of Maeda clan)

Gorgeous and elegant

Refreshing afternoon

May is the season for roses in Japan. In the garden of the Kamakura Museum of Literature, 221 roses (186 varieties!) burst into bloom in mid May. This was originally a summer villa of Marquis Maeda (15th head of the Maeda clan), but the current western style house was built after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. In 1983, the Maeda Family donated this beautiful villa to Kamakura city and since then, it has been open to the public as a museum that exhibits novelists’ (including Yasunari Kawabata) hand written manuscripts, letters, favorite personal items, and so on.

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