Recorded Joy·Rakuhoku / Kitayama / Kamo

Mitsui Family's Shimogamo Villa

A villa of the wealthy Mitsui merchant family (an Important Cultural Property): a Meiji-era main house relocated here in 1925 and crowned with a lookout tower. In its garden stand two aphananthe (muku) trees leaning together, known as the 'wedded trees' (meoto-no-ki).

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These notes come from desk research. Local traditions vary.