Takeo Shiota

The design of the Shiota's Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, dates from 1914. It stands as the prototype for a popular genre, the first Japanese garden to be created in an American public garden. Shiota's design blended the ancient hill-and-pond style and the stroll-garden style of the Azuchi–Momoyama period,^[3] in which various landscape features are gradually revealed along winding paths. Its 3 acres (1.2 ha) contain hills, a waterfall, a pond, and an island, all artificially constructed, with wooden bridges, stone lanterns, a viewing pavilion, a torii, and a Shinto shrine (razed by an arsonist in 1937^[4] and rebuilt in 1960^[5]).

Other work includes:

• one of the four gardens at the Sister Mary Grace Burns Arboretum in Lakewood Township, New Jersey (originally commissioned by George Jay Gould I, and now part of Georgian Court University)
• a Japanese garden at the Walter Kroll house, "Sho-Chiku-Bai", in Tuxedo Park, New York, for architects Walker & Gillette, c. 1912^[6]
• the rooftop North Garden at the Astor Hotel^[7]

• Works by or about Takeo Shiota at the Internet Archive