First established as a Japanese-style landscape for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, the current garden was designed by Sano Tansai in 1958 when the authentic shoin-style Japanese house was moved here from New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The Philadelphia Museum of Art occupies the southern tip of Fairmount Park, just west of the Eastern State Penitentiary. Philadelphia's other noteworthy Japanese structure is inside the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The pond has koi fish and and water lilies. The pond and tea house are visible from outside on one side. The 2015 centennial of the Department of Asian Art offers an ideal opportunity to explore the history of the Museum's collection of Japanese art. Designed in the rustic tradition or "artless style" of the fifteenth-century artist Oguri Sotan, it also incorporates eighteenth-century elements. DOJI-EN was also designed by the museum designer, Yoshio Taniguchi. The renovation of these galleries, strategically located between the Japanese Tea House and the Indian Pillared Temple on the museum’s second floor overlooking the East Terrace, is the most recent in a series of refurbishments running parallel to the museum’s major interior renovation, the massive Frank Gehry-designed “Core Project.” Marvel at the historical exhibits such as a Parisian grand salon and a fully reconstructed Japanese tea house, and imagine yourself a knight as you stroll through a hall chock full of medieval armor. Their tea house “DOJI-EN” is named after the area, the surrounding land of the tea house used to be called DOJI-YAMA (Doji hills). It is modeled after the sōan(literally, “grass hut”) style tea house, which is a small tea house that is unpretentious and rustic by design.Seishin-an is a little larger than a typical sōan tea room to allow both sōan and hiroma (large-room) style tea ceremonies. Explore the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Rodin Museum with a General Admission ticket Lets share the news of the Hong Kong Museum of Art and Flagstaff House of Museum of Tea Ware, now Shofuso (Pine Breeze Villa), (Japanese: 松風荘) also known as Japanese House and Garden, is a traditional 17th century-style Japanese house and garden located in Philadelphia's West Fairmount Park on the site of the Centennial Exposition of 1876. (Using traditional Japanese joinery techniques, all natural materials) What materials were used? With four Asian rooms permanently installed in its galleries, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore Asian architecture.