Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Au Paris

Hello, welcome back everybody. I know it has been a long time, but I have been on holiday in Santander. Sorry, I did not find any Japanese Garden in there.

But if you are thinking of take a break and go to Paris, you really do not want to miss visiting Albert Kahn Museum and its glorius gardens. It is located in the shores of Seine river, at 14 rue du Port Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb west of Paris.




I guess there is no better timing than now, because it is spring and it has to be wonderful to catch a glimpse on the cherry trees all of them flowering. This is a very usual practice by the japaneses. They go to the gardens for picnic meanwhile they have a look all around to this marvellous view of the cherry blossom.

http://www.nekotabi.es/hanami-ver-las-flores/399 , this is a link that you will enjoy.



The japanese gardens at the Albert Kahn Museum are a tribute to his life. They were designed by Fumiaki Takanno, and co-fund by a japanese sponsor, Mr. Murata and Conseill Generale du Hauts-des-Seinne. It is composed by 3 axis.
-the axis of life,symbolized by conical form structures.
-the axis of dead, symbolized by conical-inverted buildings.
-and the male-female axis, symbolized by a beech-tree and a cedar.

For more information visit www.albert-kahn.fr or www.albertkahn.co.uk/museum.html this one is in english.

I wish you will enjoy this post.

Write you soon, goodbye.