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A new garden (the Bamboo Garden) was added in 1987 to commemorate the sister city relationship between Saratoga and Mukō in Kyoto Prefecture. [3] Today Hakone is administered by The Hakone Foundation, a non-profit organization, which was established in 2000 to restore and enhance the gardens independently of public funding. [4]
Emma Prusch Farm Park, San Jose; Filoli Estate, Woodside; Gamble Gardens, Palo Alto [1] Hakone Gardens, Saratoga; Japanese Friendship Garden, at Kelley Park, San Jose; Overfelt Gardens, East San Jose; San Jose Municipal Rose Garden, downtown San Jose; San Mateo Japanese Tea Garden, Central Park, San Mateo, designed by Nagao Sakurai. [2]
Connie Young Yu (born June 19, 1941) (Chinese: 虞容儀芳; pinyin: Yú Róng Yífāng) is a Chinese American writer, activist, historian, and lecturer.. She has written and contributed to many articles and books, notably including Profiles in Excellence: Peninsula Chinese Americans, Chinatown San Jose, U.S.A., and Voices from the Railroad: Stories by Descendants of Chinese Railroad Workers.
San Jose Japanese Friendship Garden: San Jose: California: Website, located in Kelley Park, temple's garden design was donated to San Jose from city of Okayama using Korakuen as an inspiration and built by volunteers from the Japanese American community in 1957–1960. The 6 acre garden includes a very large koi pond, Teahouse available for ...
Hakone Gardens, founded in 1917.The west coast premiere of the opera Madama Butterfly by Puccini was held in the gardens in 1923. Sanborn County Park. Saratoga is bordered by Cupertino and San Jose to the north, a small portion of Campbell and Los Gatos to the east, and Monte Sereno to the southeast.
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 ...
Front lawn of the mansion looking towards the garden. On the left is an artistic display, a hut made from twisted tree branches. In 1911, James D. Phelan, a three-term mayor of San Francisco who would go on to be California's first popularly elected US Senator, purchased 160 acres (65 ha) in the Saratoga countryside and foothills.
Edenvale Gardens Regional Park (originally Edenvale Garden Park) is a city park in San Jose, California, occupying 19.5 acres (7.9 ha) in the Edenvale neighborhood.The site originally was developed by Rudolph Ulrich as the 40-acre (16 ha) formal park adjoining Hayes Mansion starting from approximately 1887.