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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Kamakura Museum of Literature
Rose Garden and Writers' Museum make a nice combination
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