The Japanese Garden at Pocantico

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Abstract

The Japanese Garden on the hillside southwest of Kykuit was first designed during a time when there was great interest in the East, as well as a tremendous influx of new botanical material, especially from Asia, inviting experimentation in garden design.  In December of 1908, while Kykuit and its surrounding gardens were being constructed, the Japanese Garden was designed by two artisans, Mr. Ueda and Mr. Takahashi (recorded are their surnames only) under the supervision of the landscape architect William Welles Bosworth.

"The Japanese Garden at Pocantico" by Cynthia Altman, was published in Orientations magazine in May 2006.  Ms. Altman is the curator at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.