Kosugi Zohen Co. Ltd. is a landscaping company in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. Starting as family owned farming and nursery business, Kosugi's history goes back more than 300 years. Now focusing on the design, construction and maintenance of gardens for homes, condominiums and commercial properties, Kosugi Zohen has an outstanding customer base of more than 2,000 clients in Tokyo, Yokohama and the surrounding areas.
As a testament to their excellence in landscaping, Kosugi won a Gold medal in the 39th WorldSkills Competition in the landscape gardening sector in 2007. The WorldSkills Competition started in 1950 in Spain, "to showcase and inspire world-class excellence in skills and introduce youth to a variety of skilled careers." In the 2007 competition, 3,452 competitors, judges, delegates and others from 63 countries and regions participated. In the landscape gardening category, two contestants from Kosugi Zohen proudly won the highest award, a first in the sector for competitors from Japan.
Kosugi Zohen is also known for its construction of Japanese gardens abroad. In October 2009, Kosugi completed a 2,650 sq. meter dry rock garden in Heydar Aliyev Park, Ismaylli, Azerbaijan. The stone arrangement design of the garden followed the shumisen style, using a large standing piece surrounded by smaller ones. The majority of the plants are from Azerbaijan to allow the vegetation to smoothly adapt to the new garden.
In February 2015, the first traditional Japanese garden designed and constructed by Kosugi Zohen opened in Bahrain. The opening ceremony of the 4,000 sq. meter "Bahrain Japan Friendship Garden," featuring a waterfall, two ponds connected by a winding stream, beautiful wooden bridges, stone lanterns and many more ornamental items shipped from Japan, was attended by H.R.H. Princess Sabeeka.
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