Abstract
The aim of this study is obtain the character of the rock garden of the Nikko botanical gardens attached to Tokyo Imperial University Faculty of Science in the expansion period. The Nikko botanical gardens moved to Rengeishi in 1911. The new site, was also planted alpine trees, “Tsukiyama style” rock garden was built near the office by Shunsuke Kusano and Naoyoshi Mochizuki in reference to perhaps the British rock garden from 1912 to 1914. And the like that the Taisho Emperor sometimes took a walk in the botanical gardens during the summer months, the landscape gardening in the gardens advanced more and more. In 1927, “Taisho Emperor memorial garden” (about 2,000 tsubos) was made in the hilly place in the middle of the gardens. This garden of the Tsuyoshi Tamura design consisted of a lawn open space, realistic rock garden with many pockets and water garden. And the new rock garden (about 150 tsubos) was made along the Daiya River from 1934 to 1937. In the Nikko botanical gardens, the rock garden was the continued to be a major facility with the alpine atmosphere from 1911 to 1945.
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