title: Man'yō botanical garden
text: # Man'yō botanical garden
  
  A Man'yō botanical garden is a Japanese form of botanical garden that attempts to contain every species and variety of plant mentioned in the Nara period Man'yōshū poetry anthology. It is somewhat similar to a Shakespeare garden in the English-speaking world.
  
  Specific Man'yō gardens include:
  
  * Akatsuka Botanical Garden
  * Futagami Manyo Botanical Gardens
  * Michinoku Mano-Manyo Botanical Garden
  * Manyo Botanical Garden, Nara
  