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Hoichi Kurisu

Hoichi Kurisu, is a popular Landscape designer of USA. Hoichi Kurisu is a graduate of Tokyo's Waseda University and a pupil of Kenzo Ogata, one of Japan's most respected landscape designers. Hoichi Kurisu is a noted designer of Japanese gardens, active in the United States.

Hoichi originally moved to the U.S. in 1968 to serve as Director of Landscaping for the Japanese section of Washington Park Gardens in Portland, Oregon. Today, Hoichi owns a Portland based landscape design construction firm. Mr.Kurisu returns to Rockford each spring and fall for a week or more to design, build and recondition the Garden's landscaping.

Hoichi Kurisu Awards and Achievements

• Hoichi Kurisu in 1972, founded Kurisu International, Inc.,
• Mr. Kurisu has his own landscape design and construction firm in Portland. The garden was recently donated to an area non-profit to be managed.
• Kurisu International has offices in Portland, Oregon and Delray Beach, Florida.
• Kurisu International specializes in creating unique, naturalistic gardens of the highest quality throughout the United States and abroad.
• Hoichi designed The Morikami Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL, The gardens, known as the Roji-en (Garden of the Drops of Dew) George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Japanese Gardens, are important in our effort to go green, save water and limit pollution.

Mr. Kurisu has his own landscape design and construction firm in Portland, Oregon and Florida.

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