The Garden's autumn colors have reached the beginning of their peak.
Behind the Shoji, opening Saturday, 7/1 and running through Monday, 9/4 in Portland Japanese Garden’s Pavilion Gallery, is one of the Garden’s most beloved summer traditions. An annual show and sale of Japanese and Japanese-inspired wares, visitors can peruse and purchase from a variety of curated items often unavailable short of a visit to Japan itself.
There is no better place for summer travelers to visit than Portland Japanese Garden. With the days growing warmer and sun shining longer, the higher elevation of the Garden and its lush and verdant surroundings in a Pacific Northwest forest provide a cool respite to those who journey here.
Portland Japanese Garden is delighted to share that its first new art exhibition of 2023, starting March 18, will feature the work of Japan Institute’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Rui Sasaki. Hailed as a “glass virtuoso” by The New York Times, Sasaki made two separate journeys east from her native Japan to collect plant life from Portland Japanese Garden to create a site-specific experience.
The inviting Umami Café is an idyllic and romantic setting, cast against a backdrop of Pacific Northwest forest and the Garden’s Cultural Village.
he arrival of spring in Portland Japanese Garden is accompanied by the steady bloom of cherry blossoms. The delicate and ephemeral beauty of these cherished flowers glow in joyful pinks and whites. What better place to come embrace the start of a new season then at Portland Japanese Garden?
On December 8, 2022 at 3:15 pm GMT, Japan Institute of Portland Japanese Garden will present a stone Peace Lantern to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Portland Japanese Garden, the most beautiful and authentic Japanese garden outside of Japan is known for its serenity-inducing shades of green. However, autumn is a special time of year when the Garden is transformed into a stunning display of color.
Portland Japanese Garden is delighted to share that its final art exhibition of 2022, Garden of Resonance, will feature the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jun Kaneko (b. 1942). Kaneko, winner of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center, has made major contributions to the field of sculptural art on a global scale, exploring the relationships between art, nature, and people with their bold scale and placement.
On September 21, the United Nations’ International Day of Peace, the Japan Institute of Portland Japanese Garden will hold its inaugural Peace Symposium, “Peacemaking at the Intersection of Culture, Art, and Nature” in Tokyo, Japan.