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The Portland Japanese Garden is a traditional Japanese garden occupying 12 acres, located within Washington Park in the West Hills of Portland, Oregon, United States.It is operated as a private non-profit organization, which leased the site from the city in the early 1960s.
Washington Park is a public urban park in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.It includes a zoo, forestry museum, arboretum, rose garden, Japanese garden, amphitheatre, memorials, archery range, tennis courts, soccer field, picnic areas, playgrounds, public art and many acres of wild forest with miles of trails.
The Japanese Garden was designed by Ken Nakajima in 1992, includes a teahouse, waterfalls, bridges, and stone paths that wander among crepe myrtles, azaleas, Japanese maples, dogwoods and cherry trees. Hershey Gardens: Hershey: Pennsylvania: Includes a Japanese garden with rare giant sequoias, Dawn Redwood trees, Japanese maples and more.
Several Japanese language schools operated in the Portland area, with the North Japanese School, Katei Gakuen, serving students in the northwest Japantown. [6] One school St. Paul Miki , named for one of the 26 Martyrs of Japan , was founded by Catholic nuns from Marylhurst University in Marylhurst, Oregon .
In 1972 he founded Kurisu International, Inc., which has since designed and built a number of gardens. He designed the Roji-en Japanese Gardens at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, a set of six gardens representing 1,000 years of Japanese horticultural tradition from the 9th to the 20th centuries. [1] They were completed in 2001. [1]
The plan, sponsored by the Japanese American Citizens League with Bill Naito encouraging its proposal, was accepted in 1988. Designed by landscape architect Robert Murase, the plaza tells the important history of the Japanese in Oregon. It illuminates the challenges faced by Japanese immigrant and the incarnations of people with Japanese ...
Yoko's Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar, or simply Yoko's, is a Japanese restaurant in Portland, Oregon. United States. The restaurant was established in Bend, Oregon, in 1989. An outpost opened in northwest Portland's Northwest District in 1994, and relocated to southeast Portland's Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood in 1997. The Bend restaurant ...
Japanese restaurants in Portland, Oregon (1 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Japanese-American culture in Portland, Oregon" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.