About Yoshikuni Araki
Lived 1921 – 1997 (aged 75–76). Yoshikuni Araki was a Japanese landscape architect and professor.
was a Japanese garden designer, garden architect, landscape gardener, landscape architect, and garden creator, who was known for his Japanese-style gardens. Araki was born in Osaka and graduated from the Tokyo Landscaping School (which later became the School of Landscape Architecture at the Tokyo University of Agriculture). Araki trained in landscape design and construction under Sentaro Iwaki in Tokyo.
Selected works
Major works in Japan Tokyo Marine and Fire Insurance Company Building, Limited outside this space Katsuō-ji improved garden Sekikawa House Garden Kanketsusen in Higashi Yūenchi of Kobe The extracellular space, Shinjuku NS Building Otani Memorial Art Museum Nishinomiya City, The garden of renewal Koku-en garden of Kyuan-ji in Ikeda, Osaka Ikebukuro Subcenter redevelopment (Central Park of Higashi-Ikebukuro, Sunshine 60 Building green space) Japanese garden of the American consulate in Kobe and many others
Major works in the world Embassy of Japan in Bangkok, Thailand Japanese garden of the residence of the Japanese ambassador in South Korea Japanese garden of the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Washington DC, United States Waterfall Garden Park in Seattle, Washington, United States Japanischer Garten in Augsburg, Germany Japanese garden of Planten un Blomen in Hamburg, Germany Japanese Garden of National Botanical Garden of Cuba in Havana, Cuba Araki designed gardens at the Royal Hotel Osaka in a series of landscape design landscaping planning, work planning, which was the winner of a designing award winning Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture department. Parks and Open Space Association of Japan Kitamura Award 15th in 1993
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Who was Yoshikuni Araki?
Landscape artchitect
When was Yoshikuni Araki born?
Yoshikuni Araki was born in 1921 in Ikeda.
When did Yoshikuni Araki die?
Yoshikuni Araki died in 1997.
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Yoshikuni Araki was a landscape architect and professor.
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Yoshikuni Araki was Japanese.
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