Japanese Garden of Peace

The Japanese Garden of Peace was designed by Taketora Saita of Tokyo and constructed during 1976 at Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz's boyhood home.

[3] Taketora remarked, "It is my hope that as the Admiral Nimitz Park is visited by people from all parts of the world, it will be praised as a small oasis of cool, green beauty in Texas.

[3] An example of this technique is Taketora’s use of field stones he found in Fredericksburg: he mingled them with various plantings on a furrowed expanse of white pebbles.

[3] A lone, square meditation structure with the qualities of an early 1900s Taisho Era house sits at one end of the park.

[3] At one time, the original structure in Maizuru was owned by Admiral Marquis Togo Heihachiro of the Imperial Japanese Navy.