Nakahama

The Kuni Garden is quite atypical of a traditional Rokugani Garden, seemingly eschewing the principles when it comes to the flower language, colour harmony, or even as a functional showcase of local fauna. Instead, the gardens seem to be an open-air Kuni experiment of sorts, to put it simply. Each of the displays here is specifically an attempt to either breed certain flowers together or present new breeds to the public that have been previously spliced together in a lab or have come from wholly different worlds. Despite this rather daring approach to gardening, there is a painstaking degree of control exerted here to tame the variety of flora and maintain a symmetry in what could have been a few degrees away from being otherwise an unchecked monstrosity.

The middle of the gardens is a bountiful koi pond that acts as the centrepiece of the garden. All paths lead to the impressive artificial pond, seemingly teeming with all colours of koi fish along its clear waters. The koi fish represent courage, perseverance and great fortune. It comes as no surprise that the Yasuki would treasure the pond with reverence, with some of the koi fish supposedly being older than a century. Ruisu, a large, well-fed blue and red koi, is currently the eldest fish.