Takuma Paul Tono

Paul Takuma Tono (; 1891–1987) was a landscape architect, professor, and writer who designed Japanese gardens in Japan and the United States.

Biography Tono was born in Osaka, Japan in 1891. He attended Hokkaido University, graduating in 1916. He then attended Cornell University to earn his master's degree. During his studies, he assisted in the annual chrysantheum show at Elmwood Music Hall, and the development of the Delaware Park Japanese Garden in Buffalo, New York. In 1962, Tono began to design and develop the Portland Japanese Garden, travelling between Tokyo and Portland from 1961 to the garden's opening in 1967. In the 1960s, he also designed the Japanese garden at the Memphis Botanic Garden in Tennessee,

Tono died in 1987 at the age of 96. Japanese Gardens for California (1969), and Landscape Planning and Design (1970).