"In
a Japanese Garden"
By Lafcadio Hearn
"No effort to create an impossible or pure ideal landscape is made in the Japanese Garden. Its artistic purpose is to copy faithfully the veritable landscape, and to convey the real impression that a real landscape communicates. It is therefore at once a picture and a poem; perhaps even more a poem than a picture. For as nature's scenery, in its varying aspects, affects us with sensations of joy or solemnity, of grimness or of sweetness, of force or of peace, so must the true reflection of it in the labor of the landscape gardener create not merely an impression of beauty, but a mood in the soul."
Excerpted
from:
The Atlantic Monthly
Volume 70, Issue 417
July 1892
Yakumo Nihon Teien
A Japanese Garden
For New Orleans
Government of Japan honors Dr. Jack Perry Strong
The Government of Japan has announced that Dr. Jack Perry Strong is among a select list of distinguished foreign nationals to be conferred a decoration by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, will be conferred in recognition of Dr. Strong's contributions to friendly relations between Japan and the United States.The conferment ceremony will be held on June 10th, 2008. A copy of the press release distributed by the Consular Office of Japan can be found here.
Dr. Strong can be reached via e-mail at president@JGSNewOrleans.org.
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