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Hiroshima Shukkei-en Garden - 縮景園 : Built in 1620 at the order of Asano Nagaakira, a powerful feudal lord (Daimyo) of the Hiroshima clan, the Shukkein-en garden later served as the villa of the Asano family during the Meiji period. Shukkeien, which can be translated into English as “shrunken-scenery garden“, includes valleys, mountains and forests represented in miniature all across the garden. It was donated by the Asano family itself to Hiroshima Prefecture in 1940. Unfortunately, lying pretty close to
