Japanese Culture

Tourist Trapped: Japanese Tea Garden

Jan 09, 2012

This is their “About Us”, a casually presented fairy tale of ruined lives and crushed dreams. What ever happened to Mr. Hagiwara? Did he ever longingly return to the garden he so painstakingly created? Did he torment Parks and Recreation for the entire fiasco? Did he live long enough to receive proper credit for his contributions to the people of San Francisco?

You’d regard as with San Francisco’s commitment to aggressive political correctness, the park would be renamed the ‘We’re So Sorry About Everything Mr. Hagiwara Tea Garden.”

I Wikipedia’d Mr Hagiwara. The website is misleading, assuming Wikipedia is realistic which, you know… He died in 1925, and he is credited with inventing the fortune cookie (!) but it looks like it is his kith and kin who got the shaft. Not Mr. Hagirawa himself.

The loud families were distracting me from all the meditating and life-decision-making I had planned to do in the soup of the inspiring pagoda, so I made my way to the little tea shop in the center of the garden. Managing to find a stool overlooking the pond and the access gates, I ordered a cup of tea and tea sandwiches (in keeping with our theme. Also, how often do you see tea sandwiches on a menu?)

Source: SFGate.com (blog)

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