July 2015～ How about having tea with the owls at the Shoya tea-room?
From July on, Shoya tea-room is opened to offer the tea set, a combination of the famous Kakegawa deep-steamed green tea and a delicate Japanese sweet.
Enjoy the refreshing mountain breeze and the sound of the landscape water.
You can also choose the cold matcha tea set.
Shoya tea-room: an unique place with a sui generis companion for your tea time
Shoya tea-room aside the old miso storage
A cute and gentle owl will welcome you
The entrance of the Shoya residence
The gleaming contrast between the blue and the green
Kamoso Shoya residence
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- Front garden after walking through the small gate
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- Iris design at the ridge-end tile
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- Tatami room constructed in middle Edo period
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- A glimpse of the ancient life style (at doma)
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- Large beams (hari) from trees on the back hills of the residence
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- Contemplate the lake from the tatami room
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- Lake
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- Water from the hills ceaselessly into the lake
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- So many rooms turns the passage a labyrinth
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- Courtyard
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- Japanese stone washbasin (tsukubai) set in the courtyard
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- Ornamented with ancient furnishing and paintings
July 7th, 2015 : The bamboo decoration of the Star Festival (Tanabata)
The bamboo decoration and the hydrangeas
The visitors hanged their wishes on the bamboo.
Evening special at full bloom: “The twilight Japanese Iris event”
May ～ June 2015 Flowers from the garden park
Brand new hydrangea (not named yet). At our site, you can see the latest development of the variants.
Light pink hydrangea: Our representative “Dance party”, created by Kamoso . Dark pink hydrangea: Year 2015 latest variant “ Dance party happy”
Late April Large-flowered and early bloom Japanese Iris
Original variant of streptocarpus born at our garden
Whitty as a wedding dress, Brugmansia (Angel trumpet)
Large-flowered tuberous begonias, developed and born at our garden
From April to May, the Viburnum plicatum which rests near the old temple turns to be a masterpiece
Flower arrangements displayed at Shoya residence main building
Benthamidia japonica in full bloom in May
