「小川家雪舟庭園」島根県・"Ogawa Family Settshu Garden" Shimane Pref

「小川家雪舟庭園」島根県・"Ogawa Family Settshu Garden" Shimane Pref

雪舟が晩年を過ごした島根県には雪舟が作った庭が複数残されました。そのなかでも小川家雪舟庭園は行政に頼らず個人の努力だけで庭園を維持管理してきました。小川家は隠岐の島に流刑となった後鳥羽上皇に従い京都から島根へ下った元貴族の家系でおよそ８００年前に江津市和木に居を定め、その２０〜２１代目の頃1460年に江津を訪れた雪舟が同家に滞在し庭を手がけたと伝承されています。この庭園は元からあった室町中期の庭を雪舟が改築したもので面積は約110坪、建物内からのぞむ池泉鑑賞式庭園で、庭をのぞむ書院は２００６年に建て替えられてまだ間もないですが床柱や欄間などに古材をふんだんに用い雪舟作の古庭と大変良く調和が図られています。庭は山の斜面を巧に利用し三尊石を中心として枯滝と実際に水を流す滝を上下二段に巧みに連結し（かって計測調査に訪れた重森三玲のアドバイスにより池を保護するため現在水は流していません）、上面が平らな石を数多く組合わせ蓬菜山水の景観を見事に表現しています。滝のアウトラインは山口「常栄寺」・福岡「藤江氏魚楽園」の滝と大変よく似ていますし、平天の石を多用するなど雪舟作の庭の特徴をよく備えています。また護岸に突き出た鷲のクチバシのような形状の石は福岡県英彦山「旧座主院御下屋庭園」にも同じような形状の巨石が置かれており類似性を感じさせ興味深いです。昭和の作庭家・重森三玲も京都・泉涌寺塔頭「善能寺」庭園で類似する鳥のクチバシの形をした石を用いています。この小川家雪舟庭は昭和３４年に島根県指定文化財・名勝第１号に指定されています。また、雪舟庭と対をなすように書院の反対側に江戸時代に作られた枯山水庭がありますので合わせて鑑賞してください。小川家主屋は式台玄関もそなえ現在も元貴族にふさわしい格調高い佇まいを見せています。

■名称：小川家雪舟庭園

■住所： 島根県江津市和木町165

■定休日：水曜日

■公開時間：9:00-17:00 　※要電話予約

■TEL：0855-53-1213

■拝観料：５００円（拝観は大学生以上のみ）

■駐車場：有り（無料）

■アクセス：○山陰自動車道（江津道路）江津ICから車で10分

○JR山陰本線江津駅からタクシーで約10分

○JR山陰本線江津駅から石見交通周布・浜田行きバス「和木」下車。徒歩約5分。

"Ogawa Family Settshu Garden" Gotsu city, Shimane Prefecture

In Shimane Prefecture, where Sesshu spent his last years, there were several gardens left by Sesshu. Among them, the Ogawa family Settshu Garden has maintained and managed the garden only by individual efforts without relying on the administration. The Ogawa family was a former aristocratic family who descended from Kyoto to Shimane following Emperor Go-Toba after being exiled to the island of Oki, and settled in Waki, Gotsu City about 800 years ago. It is said that Sesshu, who visited Gotsu City 1460 years ago when he was in the 20th to 21st generation, stayed at the same house and built a garden. This garden was originally a mid-Muromachi garden renovated by Settshu and has an area of ​​about 110 tsubo. It is a Chisen appreciation garden that you can see from inside the building. The building overlooking this garden was rebuilt in 2006, and the Toko pillars and Ranma are made with plenty of old materials to harmonize with the old garden made by Settshu.

The garden skillfully uses the slopes of the mountain to center the three Buddha statue stones, with a "dry waterfall" above and a "real waterfall" below, that is, two different waterfalls are skillfully connected into one. It has a big feature. Water is no longer flowing to protect the pond on the advice of Mirei Shigemori, who once visited this garden measurement survey. The outline of the waterfall is very similar to the waterfalls of Yamaguchi "Jyoei-ji" and Fukuoka "Fujie shi Gyorakuen" by Settshu. Another major feature is that the landscape of Houna Sansui is beautifully expressed like a symphony by combining many stones with a flat top surface. Placing many stones with a flat top is a characteristic of settshu's garden. The stone shaped like an eagle's beak protruding from the revetment is interesting because a stone similar to the "Old Zashuin oshimoya garden" is placed on Mt. Hiko, Fukuoka Prefecture. In 1959, it was designated as Shimane Prefecture's designated cultural property, the first scenic spot.

■ Name: Ogawa Family Settshu Garden

■ Address: 165 Wakicho, Gotsu City, Shimane Prefecture

■ Regular holiday: Wednesday

■ Opening hours: 9: 00-17: 00 * Telephone reservation required

■ TEL: 0855-53-1213

■ Admission fee: 500 yen (Admission is for college students and above only)

■ Parking: Available (free)

■ Access: ○ San-in Expressway (Gotsu Road) 10 minutes by car from Gotsu IC

○ About 10 minutes by taxi from Gotsu Station on the JR San-In Line

○ From Gotsu Station on the JR San-In Line, get off at "Waki" bus bound for Iwami Kotsu Shufu / Hamada. About 5 minutes on foot.