Spirited Stone: Lessons from Kubota's Garden

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Available from Kobo Shop & Gallery when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

An early immigrant’s vision transforms clearcut forest into a beloved public garden. Short stories, poems, essays, and photographs celebrate Fujitaro Kubota’s legacy. Novelists, poets, scholars, and garden enthusiasts examine the legacy of nurseryman Fujitaro Kubota, whose unique gardens transformed Seattle's landscape in the 20th century, including a garden in the Minidoka prison camp while he was incarcerated there during World War II, the first “drive-through” garden, and Japanese garden in S