Yurinso was built as a detached residence of Magosaburo Ohara (1880-1943) in 1928 at Kurashiki City in Okayama Prefecture. Magosaburo is well-known as a founder of Ohara Museum of Art which is the first private museum of the Western modern art in Japan. The Yurinso garden (about 275m²) was constructed during 1928-1931 by a famous Japanese gardener Jihee Ogawa (1860-1933). We have found the large difference between the garden landscape at the time of completion and the current one. It was reconstructed from the garden of old-fashioned style to the modern one in 1931. This transformation could be considered as the one from a style principle garden design to a constructive modern garden design, seen as composition by simple two stones. Contrasting this transformation with the trend of the modern art in the world, we considered this change should be caught as a sprout of the modern garden design.
