Archives Accession # 663

4.0.0.Y26 People in Pacific Northwest horticulture: Dick Yamasaki

Date statement: : 1957-2022
Summary:

 3 folders and 1 binder on Dick (Richard Iwao) Yamasaki.

Description:

 Folder of biographical information including:
3/15/2008 memorial service program.
3/9/2008 obituary, Seattle Times.
3/5/2008 tribute, North American Post.
2/22/2008 email from Mary Nagan announcing Dick's passing.
12/17/2005 Julie Coryell's notes from conversations with Dick and Fumi Yamasaki.

Folder of information about Yamasaki's 1967 trip to Tokyo including visiting Juki Iida and seeing Rikugien, a garden which Dick felt inspired Juki Iida. 

Folder of papers regarding Yamasaki's proposal for a pavilion at Seattle Japanese Garden, Jesse Hiraoka's 2005 memories about Yamasaki and Iida being at Seattle Japanese Garden together, Julie Coryell's 1996 summation of Yamasaki's vision of Iida's design principles, and Dick Yamasaki's annotated copy of The Zen Gardens Volume Two by Toyo Okomoto and Gisei Takakuwa (1962).

Binder containing two photocopies of The Artistic Gardens of Japan by Kanto Shigemori (1957): a photocopy of Dick Yamasaki's copy, and a photocopy of one marked UW Libraries.

Accession date: 2022-08-30 Last updated: 2023-04-26 13:37:54
Subjects: Seattle Japanese Garden

Names	Role	Function
Coryell, Julie E.		Source
Hiraoka, Jesse		Creator
Iida, Juuki, (Iida, Juki)		Subject
Yamasaki, Dick		Source
Yamasaki, Dick		Subject

Location	Note
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