Friday, April 30, 2021

Japanese-style gardens around the state of Michigan

As noted in the monthly newsletter from the Consulate General in Detroit: 

In Michigan, these include the DeVos Japanese Garden at the Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, the Tokushima-Saginaw Friendship Garden at the Japanese Cultural Center in Saginaw, and the Japanese Garden at Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills.

And from the Flickr account for the Michigan-Shiga Sister State Board, there is an album filled with the Japanese-style grounds at Meijer Gardens,  

See also the Consulate's Youtube channel, where a 2021 movie has been linked which recounts the sister-city exchanges, origins, and special features between Michigan and Shiga-prefecture, with particular attention to the one between Konan-city (formerly Ishibe & Kosei-cho, but merged in 2005) and St. Johns, Michigan, https://youtu.be/yLuHQsgs3Yk