Friday, August 6, 2010

What makes Portland Japanese garden, one of the most beautiful public gardens in the world?

It is often said that Portland Japanese garden is one of the most beautiful Japanese Gardens in the world. What makes our garden so special?

The first is design.Professor Takuma Tono, internationally recognized authority on the design of the Japanese landscape Oversaw most of the early construction and organisation of the garden in its five harmonious components. Professor Tono designed garden Japanese aesthetic, but in the Northwest Pacific Ocean.

Japanese aesthetics differ from those of our Western European origin where, schools tend to emphasize blooms cause color and bold. Japanese aesthetic is weaker, with its shades of green, random colorful flower and drew attention to a form. This aesthetic touches us any differently.

The second is meticulous service, which receives our garden.In the 1950s and 1960s were corrected as relations with Japan, many Japanese "friendship" gardens were created in the United States and around the globe, these gardens, a few people were loving attention to detail and aesthetics that our always had.

The staff of traditionally trained gardeners maintains an authentic game and interaction between dimensions and shapes in our garden, which provokes a special kind of interest and resume contributes to this sense of location. tranquil Garden staff attention in their clipping and shaping of the details and the amount in such a way that the things to keep in smaller, more human scale.

Third, is the intensity, the variety and quality of programming from traditional Ikebana and tea ceremony for displays to last year the striking parallel worlds exhibition solely for the purpose of the work of Indigo, textile arts, Shihoko Fukumoto and new Japanese garden lecture series, the Portland Japanese garden offers an array of exceptional cultural events, which depict the intersection of modern and traditional.

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