Gift-making Using Garden Products from the Rikugien Garden

Abstract

This paper deals with Rikugien Garden in the late 18th century in terms of gift-making of garden products. Nobutoki Yanagisawa lived there after his retirement at that time.
Many products from the garden such as spring herb, bamboo shoot, mushroom and chestnut were used as a gift to his relatives, friends and his servants. The garden products as gift were characterized with Nobutoki's handmade goods, the symbol of the season, the tasteful object for poetry and the food controlled by Nobutoki as the house master.