The Pond That Holds No Water: A Rain Garden Built a Century Before the Term Existed

In a Meiji era garden in Mie Prefecture, there is a stone rimmed hollow shaped like a pond that was never meant to hold water. In June 2026, nearly 200mm of rain filled it, and it drained in under a day.

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