So the garden around 1900 was a profoundly political space. Nature, aesthetics, and imperialism reinforced each other. But, unfortunately, garden historians often ignore politics while historians forget about the space representing Yamagata.
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Christian Tagsold (chtagsold@fediscience.org)'s status on Friday, 16-Dec-2022 22:54:11 JST Christian Tagsold My course "Introduction to Japanese History" is heading towards #imperialism. So let's see a #JapaneseGarden of the times.
In 1894/96, Yamagata Aritomo built #MurinAn in #Kyoto using a reward for his role in the Sino-Japanese war. The garden's Western building also served for a conference in which 4 elder statesmen prepared for the Russo-Japanese war.
Newspapers presented Murin-an as a political site. In a caricature of 1899, you can see #Yamagata pondering a railway project in China.
Margarita Estévez-Abe repeated this.
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