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Japanese garden symposium and garden tour in New York, Oct. 1-2

The North American Japanese Garden Association
East Regional Event
 
Garden History Symposium & Garden Tour
October 1 and 2, 2015 
 
Fostering Mature Cultural Landscape: The Japanese Garden in New York
 
The Pocantico Center and the Japanese Garden at Kykuit
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
UN Peace Bell Garden  
Innisfree Garden 
Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden
 
The East Regional Event explores in lectures and tours how historic gardens are being fostered in New York. The Oct. 2 tour will include a visit to the Japanese Garden at the United Nations.
 
The U.N. garden, created by Shin Abe of ZEN Associates, was built around the  Peace Bell that was created with the hope of restoring peace to the world in the wake of World War II.
 
Motohide Yoshikawa, Japan's Ambassador to the UN and the driving force behind the garden, will lead this rare visit to a place usually available only to UN personnel.

www.najga.org



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