First we had an appointment Margaret made to tour the Hannah Carter Japanese Gardens.
Date(s): May 30, 2008. Album by Elizabeth Morrison. Photos by Elizabeth Morrison. 1 - 24 of 147 Total. 1 Visits.
1 UCLA Hannah Carter Japanese Garden
2 The garden closes during rainy weather.
3 Landscape architect Nagao Sakurai of Tokyo and garden designer KazuoNakamura of Kyoto were commissioned to design the garden in 1959 on the Bel-air estate of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Guiberson.
4 Construction was completed in 1961.
5 Some of the koi in the pond are as old as the garden itself.
6 Chair of the Regents of the University of California Edward w. carter and his wife Hannah purchased the estate in 1965 and donated the garden to UCLA that same year.
7 In 1969 heavy rains damaged the garden. UCLA professor of Art and Campus architect Koichi Kawana designed the reconstruction.
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10 Moon viewing deck
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15 Behind the house is a symbolic arrangement of 16 carefully chosen large stones...
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18 Flat Stanley admired the turtle.
19 The round stones are old mill stones.
20 The two large rectangular stones like those in the Heian Shrine are called devil-casting stones.
