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.
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