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[Spring Festival Koto Performance]

Description: Photograph of a koto performance during the Spring Festival at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Two female musicians, one reading from paper on a red music stand, perform on wooden kotos with plectra on their fingers. The performance, conducted on a red felt carpet, takes place in front of a fence at the Japanese Garden.
Date: Spring 1999
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Fall Festival Tea Ceremony]

Description: Photograph of a tea ceremony in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Observers watch a woman, dressed in a kimono, with her tea set, hand fans, and box of origami paper set atop a wooden table. She sits on a tatami mat placed upon a wooden floor. The ceremony takes place in a small teahouse with opened shoji doors and a scroll illustration of a Japanese maiden attached to the wall.
Date: [..1977-05]
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Umstead Teahouse with Women]

Description: Photograph of the Umstead Teahouse in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The teahouse sits on the edge of the garden pond, is held up by stilts, and has a balcony. Two female performers, dressed in kimonos, holding folding fans, and donning white makeup are visible on the balcony in front of the teahouse's shuttered shoji screen doors. Hanging flower vases are visible on two corners of the teahouse.
Date: [1973..]
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas
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