![]() Then fundraising accelerated, and through much donated time and only one paid contractor, Steve Faulk, the dreamed of garden was built and finally opened in November, 1999. Seiji Shiba took over as chairman and in 1996, with the assistance of John North, came to an agreement with the City of Oakland to locate the garden at Lake Merritt. Through 1994, Bill Hashimoto and his associates continued raising funds and explored many locations for this northern Garden. The GSBF, the state-wide association of bonsai clubs, agreed to create two collections – one in southern California at Huntington Gardens Museum and one in northern California. Shortly thereafter, Hideko Metaxas, president of the Golden State Bonsai Federation (GSBF), presented the concept of this garden to the GSBF board of trustees. Early in the 1990′s, when Gloria died, her heirs dedicated the proceeds from sale of her bonsai as seed money for a bonsai garden to preserve special trees. Bill kept this thought alive through his friend Gloria Clementson. Toichi was interested in preserving bonsai produced in northern California. The concept of this garden emerged during a conversation between Toichi Domoto and Bill Hashimoto sometime after 1974. For further information, Contact Ki Arts. For more information about the traditional Japanese entrance gate and Japanese torii gate he built at Lake Merritt Park in Oakland, CA, see below.įor general information about design, Japanese carpentry technique and construction procedures, pricing, and commissioning a gate, go to Process and Pricing. As well as Japanese garden gates for private residences, he has constructed Japanese gates for public parks. ![]() In the West, gates tend to be less formal, and Sakaguchi-san can design and build gates with a Japanese aesthetic but more suited to Western needs. ![]() He often constructs Japanese fences in conjunction with a gate. Sakaguchi-san also fabricates the traditional, simpler midway gate ( nakamon), or gate within a garden. The gate doors can vary from simple panels to more complex designs. Traditional Japanese gates for entering a home or garden ( mon) have a gabled ( kirizuma) or hipped gabled ( irimoya) roof structure supported by cedar posts and topped with red cedar shingles or ceramic tiles. ![]()
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