Located on ancestral land handed down from generation to generation Shorien Ltd.
It was in 1580 that Noriharu Miki, the First Yokichiro, founder of the Miki family, settled on a tract of land in Tokushima. This land in Matsushige-cho, Itano-gun, Tokushima Prefecture on which a business was started 94 years later – the business that developed into today's MIKI & CO., LTD. – has been handed down from generation to generation of the Miki family.
On this land with its long and distinguished history, land on which successive generations of Mikis have continued to live, members of MIKI & CO. LTD. established Shorien Ltd. in 1982 to preserve and expand to gardens on the grounds of the vast Miki residence of about 10,000 square meters. The garden contains many wonders including a miniature mountain, ancient trees, famous stones, and a tree in the shape of a boat.
The Enshrined Incarnation of the Asakusa Kannon statue Nakakirai Kannondo Temple
In Nakakirai Matsushige-cho, north side of Tokushima City, a Buddhist temple Nakakirai Kannondo dedicated to Kannon known as Goddess of Mercy stands nestled among numerous trees in spacious precincts. Modeled on Sensoji in Asakusa Tokyo, this temple was built by Mitsuharu Miki, the 9th Yokichiro in March 1877. Enshrined inside the temple is a Buddhist artifact deeply revered by the townspeople:an incarnation of the Asakusa Kannon statue of the temple in Tokyo.
Okuninushi Shrine— Guardian deity of Indigo
The Okuninushi Shrine, the guardian deity of indigo, is in the grounds of the Kasuga Shrine, known as worship tutelary deity. In the Edo Era it was originally a shrine of Okuninushi-no-Mikoto, guardian deity of creation, in the present Tokushima City.
During the Edo Era this shrine was originally established as a shrine dedicated to Okuninushi-no-Mikoto in the present Tokushima City. In may 1885 Junji Miki, the 11th Yokichiro, transferred the by-then dilapidated shrine to its current location and dedicated it to the deity of indigo. Over the course of the next century the main hall of the shrine suffered severe damage and in 1983 MIKI & CO., LTD. led an initiative to repair it.
