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Japanese garden designer (1917–1995)

Kinsaku Nakane (1917 – 1 March 1995) was a landscape garden designer, builder, restorer, and professor.

He was the president of the Nakane Garden Research Institute and president of the Osaka University of Fine Arts.^{[citation needed]}

Nakane studied city planning in college and became interested landscape architecture on a vacation trip in Kyoto, Japan.^{[citation needed]} There he learned about Japanese architecture and landscape architecture, professions he was not familiar with before his trip.

He visited structures such as the Silver Pavilion, Ryoan-ji Temple, and the Katsura and Shugakuin detached palaces. He inspired by what he saw in Kyoto, and consequently turned down a position in the Tokyo Metropolitan City Planning Department after graduation to better understand what he saw in Kyoto.^{[citation needed]}

Nakane returned to Kyoto where he lived the rest of his life.^[1] He had