{"id":7229,"date":"2009-12-19T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/19\/suizenji-gardens\/"},"modified":"2010-12-29T21:45:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T13:45:56","slug":"suizenji-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/19\/suizenji-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Suizenji Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suizenji Gardens (\u6c34\u524d\u5bfa\u516c\u5712) was one of the two sites in Kumamoto I really wanted to take a look, and I was fortunate to manage some free time today to pay a visit. The park is considered one of the four best gardens in Japan. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the weather again was pretty fouled up, and though it didn\u2019t rain, there was little sun and even started snowing while I was in the park itself! Just ugh. Temperature was about 0-1 degrees, and it sure was difficult taking pictures when the entire body was shivering LOL.<\/p>\n<p>The park while stunning in landscaping and its flora lovingly tended to by its caretakers is in reality rather small. I\u2019ll put it very roughly at perhaps a quarter the size of Singapore\u2019s own Botanic Gardens. Moreover, the park itself is surrounded by urbanization and all the trappings of modern civilization. It wasn\u2019t easy composing pictures without seeing some apartment block in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>in any case: here\u2019s a selection of pictures:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2009kumamotoDSC_5290suizenji\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2009kumamotoDSC_5290suizenji\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/2009kumamotoDSC_5290suizenji.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2009kumamotoDSC_5172suizenji\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2009kumamotoDSC_5172suizenji\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/2009kumamotoDSC_5172suizenji.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5150suizenjihdr35\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5150suizenjihdr35\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_5150suizenjihdr35.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2009kumamotoDSC_5240suizenji\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2009kumamotoDSC_5240suizenji\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/2009kumamotoDSC_5240suizenji.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2009kumamotoDSC_5241suizenji\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2009kumamotoDSC_5241suizenji\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/2009kumamotoDSC_5241suizenji.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took a couple of hundred additional exposures too for HDR compositions. Will post them up when I\u2019m done processing them.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suizenji Gardens (\u6c34\u524d\u5bfa\u516c\u5712) was one of the two sites in Kumamoto I really wanted to take a look, and I was fortunate to manage some free time today to pay a visit. The park is considered one of the four<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/19\/suizenji-gardens\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Suizenji Gardens<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[463,237,137],"class_list":["post-7229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-cameras","category-traveling","tag-japan-2010","tag-kumamoto-2009","tag-d300","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}