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Japanese Gardens on the BBC right now!

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Monty Don's programme 'Around the World in Eighty Gardens' focuses this week on China and Japan (Zen gardens in Kyoto and more, I think) :)

Right now, this second on our beloved BBC2, he's exploring the tradition of gardens based on rocks in China.

The show is available to those of us in the UK for the next week on the BBC iplayer (and obviously for longer, and to anyone around the world, from less 'official' sources 😌)

Link here

Monty Don's odyssey around the world's 80 most inspiring gardens takes him to China and Japan, two of the world's oldest gardening cultures.

In China, Monty visits the Imperial Summer Palace Gardens of Beijing and the awesome Yellow Mountains of Huangshang, which inspired the ancient scholars' gardens of Suzhou.

In Kyoto, Japan's city of gardens, he tries to understand the Zen garden.

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I've missed most of it so far, and will have to catch it later on the internet iplayer. But, have just caught a minute or two, and after the obligatory noodle-slurping session our friend Monty's now on the history of Tofukuji - nice!
 
Did anyone see the Top Gear race from Sendai (??) to an island off Honshu near Tokyo? One of the presenters drove a high-performance Japanese car (quite illegally a lot of the time) and the other two took local transport (trains and a ferry) and the Shinkansen.

A few foreign-tourist-in-Japan cliches (naturally) but it was good fun and the scenery was really well shot - might be worth looking up on Youtube.
 
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