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Imperial palace of Emperor Saga (814), turned into Daikaku-ji by his daughter Masako, became residence of several cloistered emperors Nagaoka Palace: Mukō, Kyoto: Imperial palace of Nagaoka-kyō (784–794), abandoned, destroyed over time and not rebuilt Heijō Palace: Nara: Imperial palace of Heijō-kyō (710
Kotani-En is a classical Japanese residence in the formal style of a 13th-century estate with tile roofed walls surrounding a tea house, shrine, gardens, and ponds. Constructed for Max M. Cohen in 1918-1924 of mahogany, cedar, bamboo, and ceramic tile by master artisan Takashima and eleven craftsmen from Japan, Kotani-En represents a harmonious ...
Pages in category "Imperial residences in Japan" ... List of Japanese imperial residences; Tamozawa Imperial Villa; A. Akasaka Palace; D. Daikaku-ji; F. Fujiwara Palace;
The group purchased land from Charles Graner family in the Gold Hill region after coming to San Francisco in 1869. Though the group was able to successfully show their produce during the 1869 California State Agricultural Fair in Sacramento and the 1870 Horticultural Fair in San Francisco, the farm as a Japanese colony only existed between 1869 ...
The San Francisco Japanese School (SFJS) is a Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT)-designated weekend Japanese school serving the area. The school system, headquartered in San Francisco, rents classrooms in four schools serving a total of over 1,600 students as of 2016; two of the schools are in San Francisco and two are in the South Bay.
Six residences are currently located on the grounds of the estate. At its rough center is a Japanese garden, the Akasaka Imperial Gardens (赤坂御苑, Akasaka-gyoen), where the Emperor holds a garden party (園遊会, Enyūkai) [1] twice annually, to which are invited around 2,000 political figures, diplomatic representatives, and celebrities from various fields.
Up until 1906, San Francisco had been the main U.S. port of entry for Asian immigration and had the largest ethnic Japanese concentration of any city in the United States. [7] Prior to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, San Francisco had two Japantowns, one on the outskirts of Chinatown, the other in the South of Market area.
In 1915, two San Francisco arts patrons, Oliver and Isabel Stine, intending to build a summer retreat, purchased the 18-acre (7.3 ha) site on which Hakone now stands. Inspired by the Panama–Pacific International Exposition and her subsequent 1916 trip to Japan, Isabel Stine modeled the gardens upon (and named them after) Fuji-Hakone-Izu ...