Nagao Sakurai（桜井長雄） (November 5, 1896 – July 1973) of the Imperial Palace of

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was a

landscape architect A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture. The practice of landscape architecture includes: site analysis, site inventory, site planning, land planning, planting design, grading, storm water manage ...

Notable designs

*Japanese Tea Garden,

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, San Mateo, California. * Nishinomiya Japanese Garden, in the

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, 1967 *

Zen Garden The or Japanese rock garden, often called a zen garden, is a distinctive style of Japanese garden. It creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and u ...

and area in front of Tea House, both within the Japanese Tea Garden of Golden Gate Park, in

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*The

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, Bel-Air, completed in 1961 *The

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, dedicated in 1965 *Japanese exhibit in the 1939-1940

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, a specialized

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, Treasure Island, San Francisco *Japanese exhibit in the 1939 New York World's Fair with Dr. Takashi Tamura

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American people of Japanese descent Japanese landscape architects 1896 births 1973 deaths {{Japan-architect-stub

Notable designs

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