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The Sierra Madre Elementary School Japanese Garden

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This collection contains pictures of the different elements of the Japanese garden at the Sierra Madre Elementary School. These include stone lanterns, an arced bridge, a koi pond, a basin ...

John Tateishi

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John Tateishi is the author of "And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese-American Detention Camps", which was first published in 1984. I first heard of this author ...

Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans

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'Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans' was written by Ronald Takaki. I read this work my freshman year at Occidental College for the course Mutual Images ...

Giant Robot, Urban Vinyl, and The System of Collecting

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'Giant Robot: Asian Pop Culture and Beyond" is a magazine that documents the movement of Asian music, movies, art and toys into American pop culture. Their latest issue features interviews ...

Maywa Denki's toys for adults: Enchanted Commodities and Japanophilia

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For my birthday, my friend presented me with a little yellow toy, packaged in a box covered in untranslated Japanese. She found it at Urban Outfitters in Pasadena and bought ...

Sesshu Foster

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Sesshu Foster is a contemporary poet whose work focuses on the multifaceted identities of the people who live and work in Los Angeles. More specifically, his work examines how people ...

The Sierra Madre Elementary School Japanese Garden

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This garden, named "The Garden of Goodwill", is a fascinating space in that its different stages of contruction, vandalization, and reconstruction coincide with fluctuations in the relationship between Japan and ...

The Sierra Madre Elementary School Japanese Garden

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This garden is located at the Sierra Madre Elementary School, at 160 North Canon Avenue. The garden is not open for public viewing, so if you would like to arrange ...

The Sierra Madre Elementary School Japanese Garden

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This was taken from the back of the zen garden, complete with bamboo fencing.

The Sierra Madre Elementary School Japanese Garden

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Flowering trees line the bamboo fencing on the ramp that leads past the zen garden.

The Sierra Madre Elementary School Japanese Garden

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Another view of the zen garden, which is in need of new gravel.

The Sierra Madre Elementary School Japanese Garden

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The zen garden is a very small area that does not at first have much of a likeness to a traditional zen garden with rocks, rake, and gravel. Because this garden ...

The Sierra Madre Elementary School Japanese Garden

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Here is the Japanese-style veranda at the top of the school's stairs. On the right side are the lunch tables, on the left side is the zen garden.

The Sierra Madre Elementary School Japanese Garden

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The largest pine in the garden.

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Here is the plaque that explains this garden's history. As was common with many Japanese-style gardens constructed before the 1940's, this one was vandalized and summarily abandoned with the outbreak of ...

The Sierra Madre Elementary School Japanese Garden

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Here is a second stone lantern that is shaded by the foliage.

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Here is a closer view of the stone lantern. It is a rankei style lantern, which means that it is usually placed over a pond or stream to reflect in the ...

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A different perspective of the koi pond and bridge.

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Here is a closer view of the koi pond, which is filled with colorful carp.

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Here is a close-up of the stone waterfall along the back wall of the garden.