japanese gardens
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Today Japanese culture comprises history, influence, and knowledge. Time allows people to study the past and eventually piece together cultural practices, beliefs, and methods. Inevitably, time also allows the world's cultures to share and mix. Even though this often contributes to scholarly confusion, it molded the traditions we carry out today. Today Japanese gardens in America exemplify how the transition of culture can vary that tradition. This change, in the American-Japanese garden, stems primarily from the collaboration of all Japanese gardening elements, designs, and styles.
In 1959 Gordon Guiberson commissioned the famous landscape architect, Nagao Sakurai and designer, Kazuo Nakamura1. Together they created an eclectic Japanese garden, at Guiberson's Bel-Air estate, as a memorial for his mother1. Sakurai from Tokyo and Nakamura from Kyoto, they both understood the tradition of the Japanese garden.
A few years before the Guiberson commission, Sakurai designed the Zen garden for America's oldest Japanese tea garden at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco2...