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133:, who had traveled extensively in Asia and wanted to recreate the Japanese garden aesthetic. The garden was admired and popular, and Christie continued to employ Japanese caretakers for the garden, pond, and teahouse, to maintain Handa's ideas. In 1955, after Christie had died and Cowden Castle was demolished, the Japanese Garden was closed to public visits; in time, it was vandalised and fell into ruin. 501: 97:, Kyushu. Her father was a prison guard who also mended umbrellas; her older brother Handa Hisao was a military physician and helped support the family. She studied Chinese literature, weaving, and English as a girl, and was baptised as a Christian at age 16, then trained to be a teacher at a school in 163:
Handa married in 1910, to Seiichi Nakanome, a widowed physician with six children. They had two daughters together. "Within two years getting married, I became a wife, a mother and a grandmother, which are all interesting experiences for me," she wrote in 1912. She was widowed when her husband died
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Taki Nakanome's granddaughter Tamae Hoshi visited the Japanese Garden in Clackmannanshire in 2010. Restoration began in 2013 by Christie's great-great-niece Sara Stewart, and the garden was reopened to visitors in 2019.
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Handa taught in Tokyo for a few years as a young woman. In 1908, while living in Britain, Handa designed a seven-acre garden at Cowden Castle in
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beginning in the 1920s, until 1932, when she left the operation in her stepson's care.
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On her return to Japan, Handa taught botany, horticulture and English at
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Raggett, Jill; Kajihara-Nolan, Yuka; Nolan, Jason (2013-01-01).
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Undated photographer of Taki Handa, from a 2015 publication.
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Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) (1908).
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Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VIII
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A Japanese woman of middle age, wearing a dark kimono, seated, with hands folded in her lap.
Japanese garden
Kurume
Fukuoka
Doshisha Women's College
Kyoto
Mary Florence Denton
Studley College
Clackmannanshire
Ella Christie
Doshisha Women's College
Kyoto
Mizusawa
Royal Horticultural Society


"Handa Taki (1871–1956)"
doi
10.1163/9789004246461_027
ISBN
9789004246461






"The "Capture" of Exotic Natures: Cross-cultural Knowledge and Japanese Gardening in Early 20th Century Britain"
doi
10.4200/jjhg.66.6_492

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