Archives Accession # 580

1.1.10.S42j Seattle Japanese Garden Guide Volunteer training materials and Source Books

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Summary:

 3 file boxes and several binders

Description:

 Seattle Japanese Garden Source Books:
2019
2010
2003/4 (2 copies plus CD-Rom for 2003 and 2004)
Binder labeled "Mixed sources for 2002/3 Source Book"
March 2001 (2 copies plus CD Rom)
2000
1998

Box 1: Arboretum Foundation Japanese Garden Guide chair's notebook, belonging to Richard Yamasaki in the 1960s and 70s. Includes photos and agendas. 

Box 2: Japanese Garden Guides training materials:
Folder labelled Guide Docent Training 2000-present (except 2004):
4/17-511/2023, "Become a Volunteer Guide! flyer.
2019, "Seattle Japanese Garden/2019 Guide Training," agendas and draft preparation materials, 5 pp.
2019, "Seattle Japanese Garden Stone Objects Study Guide," 14 pp.
2/5/2010, updated Julie Coryell foreword on yosegi boxes.
2008 Docent's Handbook, 21 pp. in report binder.
11/19/2007, handwritten suggestions updating handbook from Julie Coryell, 4 pp.
10/31/2007, handwritten letter from Vikki Pearce re: various concerns.
3/8/2005, handwritten notes by Iain Robertson for "Guide TRNG" talk, 7 pp.
3/2005, "10. The Japanese Garden, " Washington Park Arboretum Historic Review, pp. 101-104. Note attached: "Provided by Kelley McCarter to new Garden Guide March 2005."
2/18-3/13/2003, "Seattle Japanese Garden: Guide Training, 2003," schedule, class list, Interpretive Field Programs instructions, handwitten notes; clipped together.
2003?, "Japanese Words and Phrases in the Garden," 5 pp.
9/12/2000, "Notes on the Momoyama Period, a talk given by Terry Weston," 1 p.
2/10/2000, guide training materials in binder, 17 pp.
1/22/2000, Japanese garden terms, 1 p.
2000, "Volunteer Opportunities in the Japanese Garden," flier.
5/29/1995, "About the Seattle Japanese Garden," welcome talk by Julie Coryell, 2 pp.
n.d., "Tours for Adults," by Kathryn M. Bowden, 1 p., (2 copies).
n.d., printed article in Japanese about "Japanese Garden in University of Washington Arboretum," 2 pp.
n.d., "Asian Philosophy and the Japanese Garden," by Mark Storey, 5 pp., printed.

Folder labelled Guide Docent Training 2004:
Loose materials 11/2004 - 10/2003
9 X 12 envelope labelled "Source Book 2003/Nov. 04 Revisions, Master Copies and Extras.  (Also contains emails from 3/2005).
Pocket folder labelled "Guide Training 2004/Emails Re: Source Book/Nov 04 Revision): (Contains correspondence 7/21/2017 - 2/15/2003 and includes photocopy of The Gardens of Japan by Jiro Harada (1928).)
Folder labelled Guide Training Transparencies 2000
 
Box 3:
        Folder containing maps from Michele Marquardi.
         2000 photocopy of 1981 guide from ticket booth, in blue binder.
         3-ring binder from 1999 guide training.
         A proposed syllabus for a three-credit course for teachers and others on the Seattle Japanese Garden (circa 1997).

Accession date: 2021-03-04 Last updated: 2023-04-12 14:49:21
Subjects: Seattle Japanese Garden, Arboretum Foundation

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