Research Catalog

Title

Spirited stone : lessons from Kubota's garden / photography by Gemina Garland-Lewis ; foreword, Charles Johnson.

Author

Garland-Lewis, Gemina

Publication

• Seattle, WA : Chin Music Press, [2020]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Johnson, Charles, 1948-

Description

228 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Academics, novelists, poets, and garden enthusiasts examine the legacy of immigrant and nurseryman Fujitaro Kubota, whose unique gardens transformed Seattle's regional landscape in the 20th century. A self-taught gardener, Kubota built a thriving landscape business, eventually assembling 20 acres in south Seattle that he shaped into a beautiful and enduring Japanese garden. Today, this public park serves one of Washington's most diverse zip codes. An innovator and artist, Kubota created the first "drive-through" garden to capitalize on America's love for the automobile. While incarcerated at Minidoka prison camp during World War II, Kubota also created a memorable garden in the desert. To Kubota, everything has spirit. Rocks and stones pulsed with life, he said, and that energy is still apparent in his gardens today. Photographs by Gemina Garland-Lewis and Nathan Wirth are interwoven with original poetry by Samuel Green, Claudia Castro-Luna, and others to make this a unique book where every page presents a different view of Kubota's garden."--Amazon.com.

Alternative Title

Lessons from Kubota's garden

Subject

• Kubota, Fujitaro, 1879-1973
• Gardens, Japanese > Washington (State) > Seattle > Pictorial works
• Landscape architects > Washington (State) > Seattle > Biography
• Jardins japonais > Washington (État) > Seattle > Ouvrages illustrés
• Architectes paysagistes > Washington (État) > Seattle > Biographies
• Gardens, Japanese
• Landscape architects
• Kubota Garden (Seattle, Wash.) > Pictorial works
• Washington (State) > Seattle

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies
• Pictorial works
• Biographies.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Nurseryman / David Streatfield -- Ashide no yo (Garden poem) / Shin Yu Pai -- Garden(s) of Arrival / Jeffrey Hou -- Issei Life / Mayumi Tsutakawa -- Neighborhood Responds / Alex Gallo-Brown -- Importance of Stone / Kentaro Kojima -- Kubota Garden: a Zen Sketch / -- Charles Johnson -- Silence, Stone, Reflection / -- Nathan Wirth -- Kubota Garden / Samuel Green -- Kubota's Garden Spirits / Jason M. Wirth There is Freedom in the Garden / Anastacia-Renee -- Minidoka's Chief Gardener / Anna Tamura -- Fallow Years / Jamie Ford -- Garden Reconsidered / Glenn Nelson -- Terra Firma / Claudia Castro Luna -- A Private Notion / Iain Robertson -- Forgive Me, Mr. Kubota / Elizabeth Austen -- Still Working / Betsy Anderson -- Kubota / Shankar Narayan -- Terminology / Densho -- Keeping the Garden Alive / Joy Okazaki.gt

ISBN

• 9781634059756
• 1634059751

LCCN

2022935825

OCLC

• on1089485616
• 1089485616
• SCSB-9669574

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library