Gardening

Letter from Taliesin. On sewing a Halloween costume for a party with the fellows, along with sketches of how he made a Japanese Haori out of a blanket; goings on at Taliesin both social and professional. Buckminster Fuller comes to speak to the fellows.

Letter from New York. Kan thanks Wak for a package, talks about visiting some of the New York City tourist sites and seeing movies. Wanted to get a meal in Chinatown but sensed anti-Japanese sentiment. Continues to discuss relationship between his immediate boss on the New York World's Fair garden, landscape architect Shogo Myaida, and the …

Curriculum vitae of Kaneji Domoto. Contains: office address, education, apprenticeships, and work experience; partial lists of landscaping projects (residential, parks, commercial, colleges) and architecture projects (commercial, residential); statement on his landscape design approach, with notes on the advantages of using stones and water features versus plants, from design and maintenance perspectives. Statement on his approach to …

Clipping from Seattle paper Beacon Hill News describing Kan Domoto's visit to the local Kubota Gardens and his advocacy for the garden's preservation. Next to the article is the headline "Hirabayashi conviction overturned" with accompanying article. Written on the back is a note from Kan to Kris Domoto, "Dear Kris: This is what I'm up on …

Letter from New York. Since finishing the New York World's Fair job Kan has moved out to Albertson, N. Y. He is working for his recent boss at the fair, landscape architect Shogo Myaida. Season changing to spring. He has visited Frank Lloyd Wright's 1937 Rebhuhn House in Long Island and includes detailed impressions.

Flyer advertising the opening of the Japanese Garden and Ho-o Den Palace at Jackson Park, Chicago, originally built for the 1893 World Columbian Exposition and reconstructed by Kaneji Domoto in 1981. Flyer includes an overview of Japanese gardens and the history of the garden at Jackson Park, as well as a program of events and list …

Photograph of Tsuyoshi Nakahara (front), Saburo Nakahara (middle) and Yoshiko (Nakato) Nakahara (back) picking sugar peas. The caption below the photo reads "Picking sugar peas from Takeo's large garden" in black ink.

The caption below the photo reads "Gardening" in black ink.

The caption below the photo reads "The veggie garden" in black ink.

The caption below the photo reads "African Violets & other indoor plants" in black ink.