花葉の池
園内南側、延養亭と栄唱の間に隣接する蓮池は花葉の池と呼ばれています。6月中旬から8月にかけては、一天四海と呼ばれる蓮が直径30cmにもなる白い花を咲き誇らせます。明け方に花開く蓮の花は、昼過ぎには花びらを閉じてしまいます。池を横切る小さな栄唱橋のたもと近くには大立石と呼ばれる巨石があります。橋の北端には壮麗な枝垂れ桜、南端には楓の木が植わっています。池の向こうに見えるのは、さまざまな種類の草木が茂る二色が岡の林。池の水は園内を蛇行する小川や沢の池から地下水路を通って流れてきており、美しく配置された岩々に注がれていきます。
Kayonoike Pond
The lotus pond on the south side of the garden beside the Enyotei House and the Eisho-no-ma Room is called Kayonoike. From mid-June to August, it is filled with the large white flowers of ittenshikai lotus, which can reach up to 30 centimeters in diameter. Lotus flowers open in the morning at dawn and close their petals soon after noon. The small Eishobashi Bridge traverses the center of the pond; at one side is the large Odateishi Stone. At the north end of the bridge is a splendid weeping cherry tree and at its south end maple trees. The Nishikigaoka woods that form the backdrop of the pond are filled with many different species of trees and plants. The water of Kayonoike Pond travels via underground pipes from the garden’s meandering stream and Sawanoike Pond and cascades into the pond over a splendid arrangement of rocks.
