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Local Japanese GardensTHE JAPANESE GARDEN IN THE WASHINGTON PARK ARBORETUMhttp://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/parks/parkspaces/japanesegarden.htm#aboutLocated within the Washington Park Arboretum, this is a three and a half-acre formal gardendesigned and constructed under the supervision of world-renowned Japanese garden designer JukiIida in 1960. Chado (The Way of Tea) demonstrations are offered periodically. For more informationon tea demonstrations, view the Urasenke Foundation's events page at:http://www.urasenkeseattle.org/page21.KUBOTA GARDENhttp://www.seattle.gov/parks/park_detail.asp?ID=415Hidden in South Seattle, Kubota Gardens is a stunning twenty-acre landscape that blends Japanesegarden concepts with native Northwest plants. The city acquired the property, which is an historiclandmark, in 1987 from the estate of master landscaper Fujitaro Kubota. Kubota was a horticulturalpioneer when he began merging Japanese design techniques with North American materials in hisdisplay garden in 1927. The Gardens are a spectacular setting of hills and valleys, interlaced withstreams, waterfalls, ponds, bridges, and rock out-croppings with a rich array of plant material.JAPANESE REMEMBRANCE GARDEN AT SEATTLE UNIVERSITYhttp://www.seattleu.edu/home/news_events/news/news_detail.asp?elID=3212006105718&elYear=2006Located on the northeast corner of the Seattle University campus that once was the site of aJapanese-American community, the Japanese American Remembrance Garden serves as a livingmemorial to Japanese Americans who were forced to live in internment camps during World War II.Seattle University established the garden as a special area for healing, reflection, and inspiration. Italso celebrates the legacy of Fujitaro Kubota, a Japanese immigrant who was interned at CampMinidoka in Idaho. After the war, Kubota designed nine gardens at Seattle University. His grandson,Allan Kubota, is the master landscaper of the Japanese American Remembrance Garden, the tenthKubota garden on campus. The garden features plants, trees and rocks, all carefully positioned tocreate the balance and simplicity that are distinctive of Japanese gardens.JAPANESE GARDEN AND BRIDGE, EVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGEhttp://www.everettcc.edu/programs/socsci/nbi/index.cfm?id=5040&linkFrom=SearchFollowing traditional Japanese design standards, the garden provides a local example of Japanesedesign and gardening. The garden landscape includes several classical Japanese garden elementsincluding a formal entry gate, waterfall and stream, tea garden, rock garden, tsubo garden, stonebridge, earthen bridge, and wooden bridge; it is enclosed by a tiled roof and earthen wall. The gardenprovides a formal entryway to the NBI Center, a retreat from everyday activities, and a place to learnmore about Japanese culture and art forms.FILMSSPICE: USING FILM TO EXPLORE HISTORYhttp://spice.stanford.edu/docs/using_film_to_explore_history/Film's ability to serve up living images of past events gives it an advantage over most history books.Most feature films invite their viewers to identify with the characters and scenes depicted on screen;watching Akira Kurosawa 's Seven Samurai (1954) leaves one with a visceral and nearly indelible senseof what a Japanese village must have looked like, and a feeling as well for some of the ideas aboutstatus that came to structure early modern Japan.28