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1.1.10.S42d Seattle Japanese Garden publications and programs

Date statement: : -
Summary:

 2 boxes:
Part 1: Publications
Part 2: Events and fundraising
Description:
 Part 1, Publications:

Folder 1: 
Self-guided tour brochures (2009, 1993, and many other undated revisions)
Undated "Inside the Japanese Garden" (circa 2001) and "Japanese Garden Tour" (circa 1985) brochures.
Undated "Seattle's Japanese Garden: The Next Best Thing To Being In Japan" brochure from the Japanese Garden Society.

Folder 2a:
Booklets:

2021, "Seattle Japanese Garden/A Walking Tour of the Stone Carvings," 21 pp.
2018, "Discovering the Stone Lanterns of the Seattle Japanese Garden," 15 pp.
4/2009, "Plants and Trees of the Seattle Japanese Garden: an introduction," 15 pp. (A second reprinted copy is dated 4/2016.)
5/2001, "Haiku for the Seasons," foldout poems.
2000, "Whispering Into the Wind: an assemblage of poems by Northwest poets commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Japanese Garden" (bamboo-decorated, copy 33 of 100).
March 2000 reprint of "The Japanese Garden" by Juki Iida, translated by Glenn Webb, with introduction by Carolann Freid.
1970 "The Japanese Garden" by Marjorie Clausing and Joy Spurr (2 copies).
1961 "Our Japanese Garden" by Juki Iida and Associates (8 pages, reprinted from Arboretum Bulletin as a booklet).
"Haiku for the Seasons" 

Folder 2b:
March 2001 "Discover the Stone Lanterns" by Kathleen Smith, along with background materials and correspondence.

Folder 3: 
Videos and other digital publications 

Folder 4:
2000 initial website development correspondence

Folder 5a:
Fundraising: notecards

Folder 5b:
Fundraising: images of stone lanterns for card game 

Part 2, Events and Programs:

Folder 6a: Events (general)
2021, Garden Party invitation cards (2 copies).
2020, 60th anniversary bookmarks containing Ginkgo biloba leaves, 6 bookmarks.
7/24/2015, "The Garden Party: A 55th Anniversary Celebration for the Seattle Japanese Garden," menu, program and map.
11/3-17/2010, "Through the Lens: 50 Years of the Japanese Garden," SCAN TV flier.
9/2-11/14/2010, "The Japan Foundation's 'Katsura': The Photographs of Ishimoto Yasuhiro," Seattle Japanese Garden's 50th anniversary special exhibit, post card.
6/6/2010, "Japanese Garden 50th Anniversary Celebration," invitation post card.
5/4/2009, "Japanese Garden Gatehouse Grand Opening," post card.
4/20/2009, "The New Gatehouse Entry Village," invitation card to celebration.
4/20/2009, "Donor Recognition Party" invitation note card. 
5/23/2008, "Rare Japanese Ground Purification Ceremony for Japanese Garden Gatehouse Construction," news release. 
10/1/2007, "Autumn in the Garden," invitation to fundraising campaign event.
2/26/2005, "Opening Day Celebration in the Japanese Garden," flier.
2005, Event listing card from Seattle Parks and Recreation.
2004 or 2005, "Haiku and the Japanese Garden," printed information by Michael Dylan Welch, 4 pp.
 2004, Event listing card from Seattle Parks and Recreation.
2003, "Seattle Japanese Garden 2003 Programs,"flier.
Winter 2003, calendar of events from Japanese Garden Society Newsletter.
2002 Seattle Parks and Recreation Event Season card.
2001 postcard for 9/8/2001 Echoes in the Garden concert with Gary Stroutsos.
Spring 2001 flier for Japanese Garden lecture series, includes trifold brochure for 5/4/2001 Edo Period Daimyo Gardens talk by Marc P. Keane.
2001 Japanese Garden Program sheet.
Proposed budget for Program Year 2001.
10/2000 invitation to celebration featuring Randy Hayes (artist) and Nobuhiko Yoshizumi (kite-maker).
8/1/2000 press release of Fall events.
7/28-8/2000, "The Fantasticks in the Japanese Garden," post card.
7/16/2000, "Watercolor in the Japanese Garden July 16, 2000 with Molly Hashimoto," bookmark.
Undated "Sundays in the Japanese Garden" brochures.
1/29/2002, "The Essence of Japan in Florida, The Morikmi Museum and Japanese Gardens,"presentation by Hoichi Kurisu, N.A.P. news release.
1/10/2002 leaflet for Makoto Suzuki talk "Japanese gardens in other cultures: beyond space and time."
3/28/2000 "Designing a Japanese Garden" leaflet. 
3/14/2000 postcard invitation to joint Japanese Garden/Unit 86 meeting.
5/27/1999 invitation to joint Japanese Garden/Unit 86 meeting.
1996 brochures: "Japanese Garden Society presents Japanese Elements in Pacific Northwest Landscape Design" and "Trans-Pacific Century 2."
1996 Poetry in the Garden bi-fold brochure (orange) and poems translated into English.
Undated card from Tsunami Taiko drum group.
Undated bookmark for Oru Kami event at Graham Visitors Center.
10/1999 Unit 86 meeting postcard. 
Undated Oru Kami (Origami) bookmark for March 9 event (no year).
Undated business card for Tsunami Taiko drum group.

Folder 6b:
Notes, reports, programs, correspondence, and information for guides regarding Children's Day (Kodomo-No-Hi) celebrations from 1996 to 2001.

Folder 6c:
Opening Ceremony
n.d., Kannagara Jinjya, the Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America, a Shinto site in Granite Falls, WA, trifold brochure, 3 informational postcards,  and information sheet.

Folder 6d:
Tanabata
no date: "The Tanabata Story" flier.
2000 "A Dream from the Past, a Vision for the Future" postcard.
2000 "Tanabata Festival" flier featuring list of poets reading in the garden.

Folder 6e:
Moon Viewing (Tsukimi)
Correspondence, notes, and invitations for Moon Viewing events, 1966-2001 (incomplete)
9/17/2016, "Moon Viewing" information card
8/19/2002, Tsukimi flyer.
8/12/2000, Moon Viewing program, invitations, letters.

Folder 6f: Labelled "Events:Tea Ceremony"
2003, "The Urasenke Chado Tradition," foldout brochure.
after 2001, "Urasenke Foundation: Seattle Branch," 8 pp. of information sheets.
Fall 2000, "Urasenke Foundation, Seattle Branch, Fall 2000 Chanoyu Calendar," 1 p.
4/29/2000, invitation to HARU Spring Tea Gathering,1 p.
4/1/2000, Letter to Japanese Garden Society, 1 p. typed.
Spring-Summer 2000, "Urasenke Foundation, Seattle Branch, Chanoyu Calendar," 1 p. printed.
1996, "1996 Spring and Summer Chanoyu Calendar," 1 p.
1/11/1993, "Kyoto News/ Chado (tea  ceremony)," Manichi Daily News, 1 p.
After 1992, "urasenke seattle," information and membership application brochure, (2 different brochures).
n.d., "Discover The Aesthetic and Cultural Path of Chado: The Way of Tea,' information and membership application brochure.
n.d., "Seattle Branch," diskette.
1992, "The Art of Chanoyu," Seattle Art Museum brochure.
1985, "The URASENKE Tradition of Chado," foldout brochure, (2 copies).

Folder 6g: Anniversaries
2021, 50th Anniversary.  Includes agenda and 58 min. disc.
8/25/2010, "Slideshow Script: A Stroll Through the First 50 Years of the Seattle Japanese Garden," 21 pp.
2000 40th Anniversary
1990 30th Anniversary schedule of events

Folder labelled "Japan in WA: Cultural Resource Guide:
1992, "Japan in Washington State: A Cultural Resource Guide," 58 pp., stapled book.
Accession date: 2021-03-09 Last updated: 2024-06-18 09:42:37
Subjects: Seattle Japanese Garden

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