Art in the Garden Spring 2011 Exhibition: Come Back Koi! April 23, 2011

The second exhibition in the Living in Harmony with Nature series for 2011 celebrates koi as a vital part of the Garden's ecology. It is the colorful koi that bring the ponds to life and have always held a special place in the hearts of Garden visitors. Featuring the delicately beautiful woodblock prints of Tokyo artist Kunio Kaneko, this exhibition also displays an array of hand painted Edo and Meiji period koi-nobori wind socks and giant nobori-bata banners from the private collection of Mr. Naoteru Hayashi of Yoshitoku Doll Company, a 300-year-old doll shop in Tokyo. Demonstrations of woodblock printing by Mr. Kaneko highlight this Art in the Garden exhibition. The exhibition honors the koi lost in the winter storm of 2008, and celebrates the anticipated arrival of new koi to the Garden on Children's Day, May 7. http://japanesegarden.com/events/koi/