Name: San Jose Japanese Friendship Garden  San Jose Japanese Friendship Garden Photo: Susan Fitz   Alternate Name:   Address: Kelley Park 1490 Senter Road  Mailing Address:   City: San Jose  State: California  Postal Code: 95112  Country: UNITED STATES  Latitude/Longitude: lat=37.32199; long=-121.862059 Find Gardens Nearby Weather:   Phone: +1.408.277.2757; 408.297.0778; 408.277.5254  Fax:   E-Mail:   Contact:   Designer(s):   Contruction Date: 1965  Public/Private: PUBLIC  Hours: Daily 10am - sunset  Admission: Fee for parking  Added to JGarden: 1/1/1997  Last Updated: 12/24/2000  JGarden Description: This 6-acre garden was patterned after Korakuen in Okayama, San Jose's sister city. It's open park-like plan is different from the stereotypical Japanese garden, but this one still includes familiar elements such as koi ponds, streams, waterfall, and a teahouse. Plantings include cherries, acer palmatum, willow, irises and redwood. Bibliography Barrett Dick. "Friendship Garden Well Worth Visiting." San Jose News. July 28, 1971, pp 1,21. Conn, Kenneth S. "Real Tea House Opening in Kelly Park Friday." San Jose News, July 30, 1970, pp 1-2. Cummings, Clover. "New Japanese Garden: Friendship Takes Tangible Form." San Jose Mercury-News Magazine. October 31, 1965, p 10. Doss, Margo Patterson. "Japanese Gardens and Old San Jose." San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, May 25, 1986, p 6. Gerlitz, Bert. "San Jose Builds A Japanese-American Friendship Garden." Western City. May 1966, pp 33-34. "Japanese to Help Dedicate Teahouse:112-man Delegation from Sister City." San Jose News. May 17, 1970, pp 1-7.

With the south wind a gentle goddess came. She soaked the bronze, she soaked the fountain, She soaked the swallow's belly and its feathers of gold. She hugged the tide, lapped the sand, drank the fish. Secretly she soaked the temple, the bath-house, the theatre, The confusion of her platinum lyre --   the tongue of the goddess -- secretly. Soaked my tongue.   Nishiwaki Junzaburô   trans. by Bownas and Thwaite   20th century