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Houston's Japanese Garden is a 5.5-acre (2.2 ha) Japanese garden in Hermann Park, in the U.S. state of Texas. The garden was designed by Tokyo landscape designer Ken Nakajima and opened in 1992. [ 1 ]
Japanese garden pond in Hermann Park. Hermann Park is a 445-acre (180-hectare) urban park in Houston, Texas, situated at the southern end of the Museum District. The park is located to the immediate north end of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Texas Medical Center and Brays Bayou, east of Rice University, and slightly west of the Third Ward.
At the time, Houston had just completed the Japanese Garden in Hermann Park in 1992. Glen Gondo conceived the idea of holding a Japan Festival in Hermann Park as a way to showcase the new Japanese Garden to the community. [2] Gondo pitched the idea to Houston Mayor Bob Lanier and the city government, who allowed the Japan Festival to utilize ...
The Japan Festival was founded by Houston businessman Glen Gondo, the then president of the Japan America Society of Houston (JASH). [1] Gondo had been elected president of JASH in 1992. [2] That same year, the city of Houston unveiled the new Japanese Garden, designed by landscape architect Ken Nakajima, in the city's Hermann Park. [2]
Takeshi "Ken" Nakajima (中島 健, Nakajima Ken) was an important landscape architect and designer of Japanese gardens.Outside Japan, he designed the Montreal Botanical Garden, [1] the Cowra Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre [2] in Australia, the Japanese Garden in Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, [3] the Japanese Garden at the Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences and the Setagaya ...
Hermann Park Conservancy: Status: Open year-round, except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day [1] Plants: 650 azaleas, 490 trees of over 50 species, 55,000 perennial bulbs, 760 hedge shrubs & 4.5-acre (1.8 ha) of grass [1] Collections 'Earth-Kind' designated antique roses [2] Parking: Street or HMNS's parking garage: Website: McGovern Centennial Gardens
In the 1930s and ‘40s there was a similar garden inside Roeding Park. That garden had some 100 blossoming cherry trees and an arched bridge that led to an island tea garden “with 1,000 lush ...
The Japanfest (Japan Festival), sponsored by the Japan-America Society of Houston, is annually held at Hermann Park. It is the only outdoor festival of its type permitted to be held at the park. In 2013 almost 2,700 people attended that year's festival. [2] Hermann Park is also home to a Japanese garden supported by businesspeople of Japanese ...