Gardens for Peace and the Stolen Statue at Seattle’s Peace Park

On August 10, during our next Family Saturday event, the Seattle Japanese Garden will participate in a North American Japanese Garden Association’s Gardens for Peace community project. Garden visitors will be able to draw a peace pattern—designed by Hiroshima-based artist Toshiko Tanaka—on special calligraphy scrolls in remembrance of those who died in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. The Gardens for Peace project symbolizes our commitment to avoiding past mistakes and maintaining world peace, now and in the future.

Japanese CultureYukari YamanoAugust 7, 2024Seattle Peace Park, peace park, sadako, hiroshima, hiroshima bombing, world peace, seattle japanese garden, origami crane, cranes, origami

A Legacy of Peace, Planted in Our Garden

As part of the Seattle Japanese Garden’s 60th anniversary celebration, we are excited to announce a new partnership with the Green Legacy Hiroshima (GLH) Initiative. The history of the Seattle Japanese Garden is a beautiful story of collaboration between Japan and Seattle, and we honor that long history with this new project to bring GLH Initiative plants to our garden.

60th Anniversary, History, Plants and BloomsChie IidaJune 23, 2020hiroshima, history

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