The Huntington Library Chinese and Japanese Garden Lecture Series “Ikebana and Contemporary Art” on Feb 19 is cancelled. + Karin Higa, former senior curator of art at the Japanese American National Museum, will lecture about “Ikebana and Contemporary Art” on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 pm at the Huntington Library, Friends’ Hall. Free and...
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The Los Angeles Branch of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana was invited at the Huntington Library in San Marino on Dec. 27 to install large size ikebana for New Year’s celebration. Two large size ikebana is exhibiting until Sunday, Jan. 6. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is located at 1151 Oxford...
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The Huntington Library opens three viewing stone exhibitions on Dec. 27 and will run through Jan. 2. Viewing Stones Show is open to the public with free admission. Bob Watson’s Suiseki and Steel and Stone exhibitions are required with entrance tickets. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is located at 1151 Oxford...
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The members of California Aiseki Kai will present their 23rd annual exhibition of viewing stones at the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in Friends Hall. Admission free. www.huntington.org The show will open this year on Dec. 27, 2012 through Dec. 31 and on Jan. 2, 2013. The hours are from 10:30 am until 4:30...
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After a year-long closure and a $6.8 million renovation, the historic Japanese Garden at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, reopened April 11 with a new ceremonial teahouse, teagarden, waterfall, accessible paths, and a restoration of the Japanese House. The teahouse, called Seifu-an (the Arbor of Pure Breeze),...
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The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens will host the California Bonsai Society’s 55th Anniversary Exhibition held in Friends Hall on March 24-25, 2012. Admission free for entering Friends Hall. Parking is also free. The Huntington Library is located at 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108. www.huntington.org The show will be open to the...
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The members of California Aiseki Kai will present their 22nd annual exhibition of viewing stones at the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in Friends Hall. There is free parking and free admission to this exhibit entry. Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens The show will open this year on Dec 27 through Jan 1, 2012....
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Viewing stones (suiseki) are dense stones found in rivers, along the ocean shore or desert. While there are tens of thousands stones within ones visual scope at any moment, perhaps one stone has been eroded by natural circumstances, water or wind and sand, resulting in the shape of a miniature scene. These shapes may be...
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Written by Teresa Watanabe, veteran staff writer, on September 13, Los Angles Times prints a story about a Pasadena teahouse’s relocation to Huntington Library with a detail explanation of Japanese tea ritual. Sei Fu An teahouse at Pasadena Buddhist Temple was donated by the 14th grand master of Urasenke tea school Tan Tan Sai...
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Saturday, May 15, 2010, from 9:50 am to 11:35 am, Japanese Language School at Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute invites public to their school’s Open House. There will be opportunities to learn about their Japanese language school program, and meet their teachers and parent group. Japanese Language School at Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute...
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