I had no idea this pond was famous until
my friend showed it to me in a guidebook. Thought it was just a random pond in the school.
According to traveltokyo.info,
After the fall of Osaka Castle in 1615 the Shogun gave the property that is now Sanshiro Pond to the Maeda family. Maeda Toshitsune, the richest daimyo outside the Tokugawa family, was know for his lavish lifestyle and worked on the beautification of the pond and the garden around it. When he died, Maeda Tsunanori, the fifth lord in the Maeda family, continued his work on the garden, making it renowned as the most beautiful garden in all of Edo.
When Natsume Soeseki wrote about this pond in his book, it became widely known as Sanshiro Pond after the title of his book.
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