Category: Container gardens
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Tsubo-niwa have been described as “quasi-indoor gardens”
A tsubo-niwa (坪庭/壷庭/つぼにわ) is a type of very small garden in Japan. The term tsuboniwa stems from tsubo (坪), a unit of measurement (equal to 1×1 ken, the size of two tatami, roughly 3.3 square metres (36 sq ft)), and niwa, meaning “garden”. Other spellings of tsubo-niwa translate to “container garden”, and a tsubo-niwa may differ in size from the tsubo unit of measurement. Tsubo-niwa have been described as “quasi-indoor gardens”, and are a key feature of some…
