URL:   http://www.japanesegarden.ucla.edu/  Name: UCLA Hannah Carter Japanese Garden    Alternate Name:   Address: UCLA 10619 Bellagio Road  Mailing Address: 10920 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1520 Los Angeles, CA 90024-6518  City: Los Angeles  State: California  Postal Code: 90024-1606  Country: UNITED STATES  Latitude/Longitude: lat=34.08221; long=-118.443873 Find Gardens Nearby Weather:   Phone: +1.310.794.0320  Fax: +1.310.794.8208  E-Mail: gardens@support.ucla.edu  Contact: Japanese Garden Manager  Designer(s): Sakurai Nagao; reconstructed by Kawana Koichi in 1969 after flood damage  Contruction Date: 1961  Public/Private: PUBLIC  Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 10am - 3pm, parking reservations required  Admission: free  Added to JGarden: 1/1/1996  Last Updated: 4/24/2007  Sources:   JGarden Description: The mission of the UCLA Hannah Carter Japanese Garden is to increase the visibility and access to garden by campus departments, students and the community at large. The garden, designed and constructed by Japanese artisans, is located one mile from the campus in Bel-Air. The garden includes antique carvngs, a main gate, teahouse, bridges, koi pond and a shrine. Staff and volunteers lead tours for schools, garden clubs, campus departments and other interested groups. The garden was donated to the university in 1965 by Edward W. Carter, then Chairman of the Regents of the University of California. It was created in 1961 by Mr. And Mrs Gordon Guiberson in memory of his mother, Ethel Guiberson, who had organized the Beverly Hills Garden Club. The Guibersons, already knowledgable about Kyoto's gardens, hired Nagao Sakuai to design it. Many features were brought from Japan and reassembled on site. In addition, much of the stone for the design cam from Santa Paula Canyon in Ventura County. The garden was seriously damaged by floods in 1969, but reconstruction financed by the Friends of the UCLA Gardens and designed by Dr. Kawana, restored the garden to its original glory. Bibliography Benson, Sheila. "Japanese Garden . . . Where Peace Rules." Los Angeles Times. August 20, 1991, pp F-6,7. Goodman Marilyn. "Garden of Inner Peace, Westwood California." Garden Design. Vol 2, no 1, Spring 1983, pp 42-43. Guiberson, Gordon. A Garden That Reminds One of Kyoto. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1962. "Image of Japan, The Orient in Bel-Air." Architectural Digest. vol 34, no 4, May/June 1977, pp 145-149. "It's not Kyoto or Nikko, it's right in Los Angeles." Sunset. March 1966, pp 104-108. The UCLA Hanna Carter Japanese Garden. Update pamphlet.

The rippling wisteria That I planted by my house As a momento Of thee whom I love Is at length in blossom.   Manyôshuû   trans. by W.G. Aston, 1899