The Japanese garden at my school Roosevelt High School (RHS)
has been constructed three times as a result of various forces at work within
the community. It is located in Boyle Heights. Shigeo Takayama, president of
the RHS Japanese Club, led the construction of a Japanese garden on the campus.
In 1935, with the help of some Japanese students and parents the garden was
completed. Later these students were forced to abandon their homes as a result
of executive order 9066 and the Japanese Internment. Many of them were unable
to graduate from high school. The original garden built by these students was
destroyed after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This Garden that is located in my
school shares a little of the History of the Japanese so that's pretty cool!
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This is what a Japaneses garden created in Manzanar looks
like.
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Hi Claudia,
ReplyDeleteAre you still at Roosevelt? I am interested in making a film about the Japanese in Boyle Heights. Can you contact me? I'm a student at Stanford University who grew up there.
Veronica Lopez