San Francisco's Japanese Tea Garden is the oldest public one in the U.S.
Briefly

from Medium6 months ago
"The oldest public Japanese garden in the US was designed originally by artist Toshio Aoki, who emigrated from Yokohama to San Francisco as a young man."
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"Under Mayor Jim Phelan, the city introduced a regulation declaring that those who were ineligible for citizenship could not hold city jobs - which blocked the employment of Asians."
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"In 1906, the parks commission asked him to come back, only not as an employee, but as a concessionaire, leading to a complicated legacy in the garden's history."
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"After Pearl Harbor, the entire family was sent to an internment camp, symbolizing the racial injustices faced by Japanese Americans during that time."
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