Koishikawa Korakuen Garden

The name “Korakuen” was derived from the phrase “Sen Tenka no Urei ni Ure,

Go Tenka no Raku ni Raku”

(roughly, “Worry before the world worries, enjoy after the world enjoys”)

from Fan Zhongyan’s “Yueyang Lou Ji” in the Song Dynasty,

after Mitsukuni took the advice of Zhu Shunshui,

a Confucian scholar from the neighboring Ming Dynasty who had fled to Japan.

This phrase teaches the ethics of rulers, which Mitsukuni adopted as his political creed.

1-6-6 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

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https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/koishikawakorakuen/index.html