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Finding Aid to the Gloria Wickham Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park Research Files, circa 1887 to 2000
SFH 374
SFH 374
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Title: Gloria Wickham
Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park Research Files
Date (inclusive): circa 1887 to 2000
Collection Identifier: SFH 374
Creator:
Wickham, Gloria
Physical Description:
1 manuscripts box, 1 oversized folder
(0.33 cubic foot)
Contributing Institution:
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 557-4567
sfhistory@sfpl.org
Abstract: Contains research files of Gloria Wickham who co-authored the book,
The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park (1894-1942).
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in
English and Japanese.
The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours, with photographs available during Photo Desk
hours. Collections that are stored offsite should be requested 48 hours in advance.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
[Identification of item], Gloria Wickham
Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park Research Files (SFH 374), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Collection was created by Gloria Wickham, and subsequently donated by her sister, Mary Jane Stanford, in 2001.
Gloria Wickham co-wrote two books with Tanso Ishihara. Besides the Japanese Tea Garden book, they wrote
Hakone Garden (Kyoto: Kawara Shoten, 1974).
Contains research files of Gloria Wickham who co-authored the book,
The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park (1893-1942) with Tanso Ishihara. Included are the author's notes and correspondence, newspaper clippings, copy prints and some original
photographs, and original documents including letters penned and/or collected by Makoto Hagiwara, the Tea Garden's designer
and long-time gardener. Wickham collected information from publications and archival sources. Some documents were collected
from family members of people connected to the Japanese Tea Garden, including Makoto Hagiwara's granddaughter and Shinshichi
Nakatani's grandnephew.
Ishihara and Wickham's book maintains that Hagiwara was the designer, landscaper, and builder of the original Japanese garden
built for the 1894 California Midwinter Exposition, as well as long-time gardener. This is contrary to the City of San Francisco's
long-held promotion of the garden, and to opinions held by descendants of George Turner Marsh who held early concession rights
to the Japanese Village.
Biographical Note
Makoto Hagiwara had a daughter, Takano, with his first wife (name unknown). Makoto and second wife, Tai, adopted daughter
Sada (Takeshita Yamamoto). Takano married Goro Tozawa; Goro took the Hagiwara name. Goro and Takano Hagiwara had three children,
George, Sumi, and Haruko. George's wife was Namiko.
The collection is organized into two series: 1. Research Files; and 2. Photographs. Arrangement is alphabetical.
Tami J. Suzuki with translation assistance provided by Mamiko Nakamura.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Wickham, Gloria -- Archives.
Hagiwara, Makoto.
Gardens, Japanese -- Design.
Japanese Tea Garden (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History.