Japanese Tea Garden (San Francisco, California)
- Japanese Tea Garden (San Francisco, California)
The Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco, California, is an immensely popular feature of Golden Gate Park, originally built as part of a sprawling World's Fair, the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894. For more than 20 years San Francisco Parks Trusts' Park Guides have given free tours [http://www.sfpt.org/Default.aspx?tabid=180] , providing context and history for this historic Japanese-style garden.
The oldest public Japanese garden in the United States, this complex of many paths, ponds and a teahouse features native Japanese and Chinese plants. Also hidden throughout its five acres (20,000 m²) are sculptures and bridges.
Makoto Hagiwara, a Japanese immigrant and gardener, over saw the building of the Japanese Tea Garden and was official caretaker of the garden from 1895 to 1925.
Fortune cookies and the Tea Garden
The first evidence of fortune cookies in the United States is in connection with this tea garden. The descendants of Makoto Hagiwara lay claim to introducing the fortune cookie to the United States from Japan. Visitors to the garden were served fortune cookies made by a San Francisco bakery, Benkyodo. [ New York Times. 2008. Jan. 16. p. F1, F6 ("Solving a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a cookie," by Jennifer 8 Lee)]
It is now known that fortune cookies originated in Japan as early as 1878. [ Jennifer 8. Lee. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles (2008)]
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