Description

This beautiful scene is of a colorful Spring day and the Torii (Japanese gate) located in the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden of the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, in Brooklyn New York. The Japanese Garden at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens was first opened in 1915 and designed by Takeo Shiota (1881-1943). In 1907 Takeo Shiota came to America, driven by an ambition to create, in his words, "a garden more beautiful than all others in the world."

Japanese gardens are designed to mirror nature, using trees, plants, and structures on a scale that creates an impression of greater space. Simplicity and "harmonious asymmetry" are important principles in Japanese gardens, as are a balance between man-made and natural, change and constancy. The Torii marks the entrance to a sacred space and this is unquestionably such a spot - and amazingly it is located in Brooklyn New York.

On this day, Dad was standing there in Brooklyn, painting, immortalizing this beautiful Japanese Garden. ❤️

Through My Father's Eyes