The Portland Japanese Garden is considered one of the finest examples of the art form outside Japan.
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It so much costly and nature unfriendly to construct …. it is for elitist.
花鳥風月、侘び寂びの世界です。
Great Japanese garden!! Love it! In north American I love Portland Japanese garden and Nitobe memorial garden in Vancouver.
Just too beautiful for words. What a fabulous project to embark upon, especially at that time in American history! Japanese aesthetic culture reached a pinnacle a very long time ago… The thumbs-down here are bots, obviously — AI has no aesthetic sensibilities!
Es hermoso ese lugar, mágico, lleno de paz y misticismo. Saludos desde la Ciudad de México
Red cedar an silver…
omg that is a very beautifull garden outside japan
Not a woman in sight, plenty of men though that by their voice we know more than we want to about their private practices. Leave it to Portland to take a story about a beautiful garden and racialize it.
If this is your own film, I would love to set this footage to music on my site. I would give you full credit for your beautiful footage. Please respond when you can. Namaste' CM
Amazing garden, The CEO can be very proud! Even comes with a larping gardener wearing Jika-tabi rubber boots, haha.
Лучший в мире!
Hello weeb
Deeply moved by the guy planting the garden and left and healed when locals accepted the garden. People are natural to suspect foreigners. Living together and seeing a garden exotic yet having its beauty really play a role in easing misunderstanding and tensions. Cogratulations.
Surprised the homeless don't take it over.
really impressed with the earthquake proof castle wall. I didn't understand not using cement until he explained it. Very creative
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Added to Landscape Architecture TV.
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Where are the women?
Tono (Japanese) Designer, Kondo (Japanese) Gardener, Uchiyama (Japanese) Curator, Hira (Japanese) did most of the planting while facing racism, aggression both psychological and physical, Bloom (Jewish) CEO and self proclaimed Ambassador !
Given who decided to bring Japan into world war 3 and decided to drop two bombs on Japanese city killing civilians, and destroying the country's culture and economy and then asking Japanese to come and design and create and build this magnificent garden but then having a non Japanese owning it while Japanese work under his authority.
What a joke !
My in laws come the family of Mister Hira and he remembers fairly well and so do his descendants who was hostile to him and they were the same who run the garden today, while always bringing up the oppression of world war 2 in Europe and the whole blah blah blah universal guilt.
Again AMERICA and especially those who owns this country (no not you white folks, your masters, using other to get notoriety and never giving them any recognition and dignity.
Same old story.
This garden should be 100% japanese, own and managed, not using Japanese as slave labour but having the same people always owning it.
You really think we have short memory in Japan or that we don't know who was behind the war and how it was orchestrated and by whom !
We are not owned by you so we have a real version of history.
Oh and for the record Hira San was pressured by the Japanese government and the American embassy to visit again, he never wanted to, stayed 2 days and left right away, didn't talk to anyone, didn't eat with anyone and refused to stay at the hotel but spend the two nights at a house owned by Japanese friends he had met when he was there decades ago and who took him tot he hospital when he was stabbed.
This garden is evidence that all we need to say, is NO.
Hira was celebrated when he came back to Japan and wrote a book on his experience in portland while Tono was considered a traitor and never worked a day in his life in Japan because nobody would ever order a garden to him or his disciples who all left him.
Really interesting how this video shows only one side of the story !
Way to go Bloom.
500 000 visitors each year, at 20 dollars entrance fee per visitors, the garden brings 20 000 000 dollars every year, Tono the designer was paid 15 000 dollars to design it, Hira the one who got stabbed and did the biggest job was paid 350 dollars a month for 4 years of hard work, lived in a campavan and was relentlessly harassed and aggressed. Kondo Head Gardener's wage 1800 dollars a month (today) Uchiyama, Curator, 3500 dollars a month, Bloom CEO 2 900 000 dollars annually.
Go figure.
Looks like even in a Japanese garden designed and created by Japanese people, it is still better to be called Bloom than Watanabe !
Nothing has changed !
Oh and Hira San never received extra money when the garden became a success, neither did Tono San.
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I have started growing some Japanese Maples from cuttings and now have 12 which survived. My Dad also gave me a Sycamore Maple sapling back in 2000 which we potted up and it has grown well over the years. By 2016, it was about 12 feet tall. This May, I decided to prune it down to 2 feet leaving a side branch as the new leader and it has responded very well with 5 new branches from the trunk with many new leaves and is 4 feet tall now in a large pot. I even have it appear in some of my YT videos as it's been around for so long 🙂
Life-changing 🤩
Portland doesn't deserve the garden.
Portland doesn't deserve the garden.
Spectacular, serenity,, a place of absolute peace