Not much, if anything, can be found online about this elaborate tea house/restaurant except that it was located (according to the postcard captions) alongside one of the Meiji-era canals in the Obancho district of Kyobashi ward, near Ginza. Manyasuro translates to “Ten-thousand frivolous towers”, so I can only speculate that the grounds and buildings were a Tokugawa period daimyo (provincial lord) residence before being opened to the public as a tea-house sometime after the Restoration in 1868.
- The gated entrance.
- Landscaped pathway.
- General grounds layout.
- Bridge and pond in the garden.