A Manyo Botanical Garden is a Japanese form of botanical garden that contains every form of plant mentioned in the Man'yōshū poetry anthology. It is somewhat similar to a Shakespeare garden in the English-speaking world.
Specific Manyo gardens include:
- Futagami Manyo Botanical Gardens
- Michinoku Mano-Manyo Botanical Garden
- Manyo Botanical Garden, Nara
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