"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

Building Fund

There are several aspects of the construction of our garden that must be considered.  The first step is the actual construction of the first phase of the garden.  This Construction Phase is being funded by contributions to the Building Fund.  These contributions primarily come from the following sources:

* Individual Contributions *
* Grants *

Maintenance and Development Fund

The Japanese Garden Society of New Orleans will be solely responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the Yakumo Nihon Teien following construction.  We have all seen the all-too-familiar sight of a beautiful development that is allowed to fall into disrepair after several years.  The JGSNO has pledged that this will not happen and the Yakumo Nihon Teien will stand as a shining tribute to the friendship between New Orleans and Japan far into the future.

To insure the Garden's future, a Maintenance and Development Fund has been started.  This fund will help to pay for the garden's future maintenance, redevelopment, and hopefully, its future expansion.  A initial goal of $100,000 has been set for this fund.  There is currently a balance of approximately $80,000.  Most of this has money come from the following:

 
* Programmed Giving *
* Individual Contributions *