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  2. Shofuso Japanese House and Garden - Wikipedia

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    The Japan-America Society (JAS) agreed to sponsor the project, and declared that the Japanese House should be donated by Japan as a gift to American people in order to promote the cultural exchange. Sponsored by both the private sector and the government, the JAS raised a total of ¥18.5 million ($51,000 at the exchange rate of ¥360/$ in 1953 ...

  3. List of Japanese gardens in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Yao Gardens is a Japanese-style stroll garden Bellingrath Gardens and Home: Theodore: Alabama: Includes the Asian-American Garden with elements of Japanese and Chinese gardens [2] Birmingham Botanical Gardens: Birmingham: Alabama: Includes the 7.5 acre Japanese Gardens with a tea garden, the karesansui garden, hill and stream garden, small ...

  4. Hakone Gardens - Wikipedia

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    Hakone Gardens is an 18-acre (7.3 ha) traditional Japanese garden in Saratoga, California, United States.A recipient of the Save America's Treasures Award by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, it is recognized as one of the oldest Japanese-style residential gardens in the Western Hemisphere.

  5. Gamble House (Pasadena, California) - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Its style shows influence from traditional Japanese aesthetics and a certain California spaciousness born of available land and a permissive climate. The Arts and Crafts Movement in American Craftsman style architecture was focused on the use of natural materials, attention to detail, aesthetics, and craftsmanship.

  6. Little Tokyo, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Little Tokyo is also home to Japanese American Christian communities. Centenary United Methodist Church was founded in 1896 by first-generation Japanese American immigrants. Union Church of Los Angeles, founded in 1918, represents a long tradition of Japanese American Presbyterianism.

  7. Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony - Wikipedia

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    The Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony is believed to be the first permanent Japanese settlement in North America and the only settlement by samurai outside of Japan. The group was made up of 22 people from samurai families during the Boshin Civil War (1868–69) in Japan preceding the Meiji Restoration. The group purchased land from Charles ...

  8. Seiwa-en - Wikipedia

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    Seiwa-en is a Japanese strolling garden located in the Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, Missouri, in the Midwestern United States. At 5 ha (14 acres), it is the largest such garden in North America. It features a large lake, modest traditional buildings, bridges, islands, carp, dry gravel landscaping, and other symbolic features. Planning ...

  9. Iwahiko Tsumanuma - Wikipedia

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    An early independent project of Tsumanuma's, obtained through his connections in New York's Nikkei community, was the Keizo Uenaka residence designed in the American Colonial style in Tokyo, Japan. [7] On December 1, 1916, Tsumanuma became one of the first two Japanese architects licensed in the State of New York (certificate number 663).