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An Afternoon at Dr. Makoto Nakamura’s Zen Garden

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Chris Kincaid

Recently, I heard about a genuine Zen garden hidden away in Ohio. So of course I had to take a look. The garden was originally designed and built in 1963 by Dr. Makoto Nakamura of Kyoto University as a cultural exchange program. It has all the traditional Zen elements: a raked gravel garden with islands…

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