Yūgenbaku · “the waterfall of hidden beauty”
The Yugenbaku waterfall
Five metres high, about a hundred tonnes of stone and nine days of work led by Hiromi Hoshi.
What it is
A waterfall in a Japanese garden is neither decoration nor a water feature. It is the heart of the composition, and everything else radiates from it: the line of the path, the placing of the stones, the planting, the view from the terrace.
The word yūgen (幽玄) is one of the key notions of Japanese aesthetics. It is usually translated as “profound mystery”: not what strikes you at once, but what opens up gradually.
How ours is made
Construction runs from 19 to 27 September 2026, as a closed workshop on the park's site. It is led by Hiromi Hoshi — known in Russia as the author of the Japanese Garden in Krasnodar park — and the landscape architect Irina Andrianova. The organiser is the Green Arrow international centre of landscape art.
“There are about 100 tonnes of stone on the site right now. Just lying there — boulders we have been bringing here all year. Every stone was chosen carefully to take its own place in our park.”
Before a stone can be set, you build what it will stand on: a structure of this height carries serious loads, and the foundation was calculated in advance. The preparation — models, drawings, agreeing everything with the masters — had been under way since January 2026.
Working alongside Hiromi Hoshi on site are the Japanese stone master Teruki Kikuchi, the bonsai expert Andrey Darusenkov and the bamboo construction specialist Vladimir Einarov. The build ends with planting the banks and shaping niwaki from a living pine.
- Height
- 5 metres
- Stone
- about 100 tonnes, carted in all year
- Dates
- 19–27 September 2026, nine days
- Masters
- Hiromi Hoshi, Teruki Kikuchi, Irina Andrianova
The living sound of the waterfall — once the water is running.
How it was built
A hundred tonnes of stone waiting for their places
Four days before the build begins: the boulders we have been carting onto the site all year.
