Brown hopes you appreciate the beauty and peace of the public gardens in his book “Quiet ... left the city in the 1920s. It’s believed the couple hired Muto, a master Japanese designer who ...

The lighting is dimmed to half of its regular intensity between 9-10 a.m. Even aquariums are replicating the practice; all for the purpose of reducing what the Japanese call the ... the idea behind ...

There's also a yukimi lantern, a gift from Houston's sister city, Chiba, Japan, as well as a waterfall and Japanese cherry blossom and crape myrtle trees. "What makes the Japanese Garden unique is ...