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[LUX NIGHT Kumamoto 2024: Hosokawa Gracia and 400 Years of Time]
This admission ticket allows you to have a special experience of the Hosokawa clan's unique samurai culture (Higo Hosokawa culture) at Suizenji Jojuen Garden, a nationally designated scenic spot and historic site created by the Hosokawa clan of Higo Domain.
Suizenji Jojuen Garden, which normally closes at 5pm, will be open at night for a limited time, allowing you to experience the 400-year-old Higo Hosokawa culture as you wander through the gardens, filled with autumn leaves and flowers in full bloom.
The garden is decorated with bamboo objects, depicting various scenes from the life of Gracia Hosokawa. You can enjoy entertainment including controlled illuminations, while the story is explained through an audio app available in four languages.
[Experience]
This ticket to a special, private night-time event will be held for one month only at Kumamoto's famous tourist spot, Maeda Jojuen Garden, and you will get to experience the Hosokawa style of Bonseki, a traditional Japanese miniature art form with over 1,000 years of history.
[Hosokawa Style Basin Stone]
Bonseki is a traditional Japanese culture that ranks alongside the tea ceremony and flower arrangement, and is a "summoned landscape" art in which the grandeur of mountains and oceans is condensed and depicted on a tray. Scenes and landscapes described in waka poetry are drawn with stones and white sand using feathers or small brooms on a jet-black lacquered tray.
The white sand is so delicate that it is classified into nine different grades of fineness, and sitting in front of the tray and clearing one's mind is just like Zen training.
The Hosokawa school was founded by the first Hosokawa Yuusai and the second Hosokawa Sansai, and continues to pass on the elegant culture of wabi-sabi to the present day.