After ten long years,and with the help of many volunteers,the land- scaping of this garden has finally been completed.The garden serves as an appropriate image of the theme "Forest and School",the concept of our institution.
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Suikin-tei Garden continuation;
These buildings help to make this garden one of the most unique com- prehensive art spaces to be found in Japan. In 2001 the Suikin-tei garden was officially designated as a nationally registered tangible cultu- ral property.
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SUIKIN-KUTSU
The Suikin-kutsu is also located on the grounds of the Suikin-tei garden. This site was selected by the Ministry of Environment as one of the "100 Most At- tractive Scenic Locations for Sounds in Japan". It is the only entry from this list to be located within Gunma Prefecture.It is open to the public and attracts many visitors to the garden and our campus...
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SUIKIN-KUTSU continuation; Drops of water from a wash basin create an exquisite sound as they resonate inside a pair of jars,representing the positive and negative, which have been buried in the ground.The Victor Com- pany has produced a CD of this environmental sound that is currently being so- ld throughout the country...
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TESLA This clean energy pavillion utilizes Japan's first solar light generator system. A large volume of hot springs water also gushes up from a spring located on the TESLA grounds... The TESLA building,called the "Sanpuku Onsen",is open to the general public and attracts many visitors who come to bathe in the spring water. There are also lecture rooms,a day-care center and a restaurant cafe that serves additive -free bread.
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SHICHIGASHUKU CAMPUS at MIYAGI PREFECTURE
Our theme is coexisting with nature.Appropriately our Shichigashuku Campus in Migai Prefecture is su- rrounded by nature in its location on approximately 300,000 sq.meter.of pristine agricultural and forest land. The "Republic of Water and Greenery"that we have estab- lished there is governed by President Hironaka Heisuke, the famous mathematician,and his vice president the talen- ted actor,Sugawara Bunta. In this presidential prefecture, you can find the Tower of Sun and Wind,a ceramics studio with a wood burning kiln.The area closely re- sembles an old-fashioned Japanese home.
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HISTORY
1966 Horikoshi Incorporated Educational Institution founded in Takasaki city, Gunma prefecture. Horikoshi Kindergarten established. 1968 Takasaki Training School for Nursery Teachers established 1980 Kodomo no Kuni (Country of Children)Kindergarten established. 1985 Construction works of Kaya no Ie seminar house completed.
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1986 Construction works of Suikin-tei Japanese Style garden started. 1987 Suikin Sogaku-do Concert Hall completed, as a composite art space. 1988 The Fine Arts Section of the Junior College estab- lished. The name of Takasaki Junior College changed into Takasaki Art College.
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1991 Construction works of Suikin-tei Japanese-style garden completed. 1992 Takasaki Training School of Care Workers established. On the grounds of the school the Shakyamuni Hot Spring of Welfare,sprung up.