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was an important
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 ...
and designer of
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. Outside Japan, he designed the
Montreal Botanical Garden The Montreal Botanical Garden (, ) is a large botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada comprising of thematic gardens and greenhouses. It was designated a National Historic Sites of Canada, National Historic Site of Canada in 2008 as it i ...
, the
Cowra Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre The Cowra Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre is located in the town of Cowra, in the Central West, New South Wales, Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The garden was established to recognize and develop the historic and ongoin ...
in Australia, the Japanese Garden in
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in Houston, Texas, the Japanese Garden at the
Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences The Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences was founded in April 1945, and claims itself to be the largest botanical garden in Europe. It covers a total territory of approximately 3.6 km², bordering the VDNKH Exhibition Cente ...
and the Setagaya Parc in
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. Born in Japan in 1914, Takeshi "Ken" Nakajima graduated from the
Tokyo University of Agriculture The , abbreviated as Nodai (農大, ''nōdai'') or Tokyo nodai (東京農大, ''Tōkyō nōdai''), is a private university of agriculture in Japan. Tokyo University of Agriculture is a Japanese private university headquartered at 1-1-1 Sakurag ...
in 1937, where he later became a faculty member. In 1957, he started his own company called Consolidated Garden Research, based in Tokyo. In 1986,
Hirohito , Posthumous name, posthumously honored as , was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, from 25 December 1926 until Death and state funeral of Hirohito, his death in 1989. He remains Japan's longest-reigni ...
, the
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, awarded him the
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, Gold and Silver Ray, for promoting Japanese culture worldwide. Mr. Nakajima died on November 29, 2000, and the company he created passed to his son Hiro. Ken Nakajima Place, Cowra NSW is named for him.


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1914 births 2000 deaths Artists from Tokyo Landscape and garden designers Japanese landscape architects {{Japan-bio-stub