International Association of Japanese Gardens

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• A Garden Designer Who Has Made Gardens in Tokyo for 30 Years: Takayuki Hirai’s Style
• The Garden is Living: Garden of Mr. Murakami—Nishiogi, Suginami-ku
• The Garden Acting as the Outdoor Room: Garden of Mr. I—Akatsuka, Itabashi-ku
• Lifestyle Changes the Garden: Garden of Mr. Suzuki—Eifuku-cho, Suginami-ku
• Planting Energy as Well as Trees: Garden of Mr. Kaneko—Higashifushimi, Nishitokyo-shi
• A Feeling of “Musashino” in the Garden: Kissho-Kuen-sora
• Stepping Stones Show the Gardener’s Skill: Garden of Mr. Matsuki—Ikomachi, Adachi-ku

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• Explanation of Works: Takayuki Hirai’s Style, Gardener’s Soul is Alive in Tokyo
• “Do you know Jukki Iida?”: Garden of Mr. Murakami
• A Tree symbolizes Woods: Garden of Mr. I
• Relationship through a Lifetime: Garden of Mr. Uzuki
• Destination of Gardens in Tokyo: Garden of Mr. Kaneko
• Talking about Musashino….: Kissho-kuen-sora
• What are Skills of a Gardener?: Garden of Mr. Matsuki

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• A Garden in “Harunoya”
• The Traces of the Edo Period
• The Inside and the Outside Forming an Integral Unit

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• Takeshi Sako and Takayuki Hirai — Making a Hermit’s Garden

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• Takayuki Hirai Talks about His Garden Making: Should one be Japanese before being a Craftsman

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• Takayuki Hirai: A man and His Works—Garden Making in Collaboration with his Mentor, “Improvement by Competing with Each Other”
• 7 Year Training for a Gardener – Kuniko Oyama
• Mental Growth – Yuki Hakuta
• Garden Harmonizing with Culture and Times – Yoshitomo Obara
• There is only Advance – Kazuki Sato
• 30 Years that a Veteran Craftsman Has Seen – Kazunobu Yamada

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• Profile of Mr. Takayuki Hirai: A Gardener’s Pride

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• Chronological List of Takayuki Hirai’s Achievements for 30 Years

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• Works of Five Garden Designers Coming from Sekishoen Managed by Takayuki Hirai
• Works of Seiichiro Yui: Garden with a Stream/Garden of a Condominium
• Work of Yoshitake Ogawa: Garden of Mr. Hagiwara
• Work of Takashi Fujishiro: Garden Surrounding Open-air Bath
• Work of Shuji Ueno: Garden of Mr. Taga
• Works of Takami Tachi: Garden of Mr. T/Garden of Mr. H

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• Let’s Introduce Green Power into Everyday Lives – Tomomi Tashima

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• Roadside Trees are Crying — Part II: Roadside Trees Smile
• Restoring Greenery in the City – Toru Fukuoka
• Cherishing Roadside Trees: Interview at the Edogawa Ward Office
• People who act in good faith without calculating profit and loss – Saori Yanagi

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• Random Garden Talk Series – Takenosuke Tatsui

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• Landscape Journal

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• New Subjects of Talk – Hitoshi Toyokura

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• English Index / Editors of Talk