"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

Digital Diary

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More Views of Spring in the Garden:    April 2007

Spring 2007:
Prof. Dorrill, Mrs. Kitahama, Mrs. Sakato, Dr. Lastrapes, and Mrs. Funayama visit the garden. 

Views from the Work Site:        April 2006

Views from the Work Site:        July 2005

Views from the Work Site:        June 2005

Views from the Work Site:        May 2005

Views from the Work Site:        January 2005

Views from the Work Site:        December 2004

Views from the Work Site:        November 2004

Views from the Work Site:        October 2004

Views from the Work Site:        August 2004

Views from the Work Site:        April 2004

How It Looked Before Construction Began:

Groundbreaking:        January 2003

Views from the Work Site:    April 2003

May 2003

July 2003

August 2003

September 2003

October 2003

November 2003

January 2004

February 2004