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Fujitaro Kubota and his Garden
 
Mukai Farm & Garden is delighted to be hosting a virtual watch party of the documentary, Fujitaro Kubota and his Garden
Fujitaro Kubota and his Garden is a documentary film about the extraordinary Japanese immigrant behind South Seattle’s beloved Kubota Garden, in Rainier Beach. The beautiful 20-acre public historical landmark, a fusion of traditional Japanese and Pacific Northwest landscaping, is Kubota’s lifetime masterpiece; a testament to not only his artistry but his perseverance in the face of anti-immigrant racism.

In 1927, Fujitarō Kubota, an immigrant from Shikoku Island, bought five acres of swampland in the Rainier Beach neighborhood. He and his family transformed the land into a nursery and display garden for their landscaping business, the Kubota Gardening Company. Kubota was self-taught with no prior gardening experience. His first US jobs had been at a sawmill and in property management. He had found his passion in landscaping, learnt as he went, and over time became a brilliant horticulturist with a thriving business.

But in 1942, Kubota and his family were forcibly removed from Seattle and incarcerated at Camp Minidoka in Idaho, part of the mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Kubota’s garden was neglected for years while the family was imprisoned. Kubota and his family returned to Seattle in 1945 and, amazingly, were able to restart their business. Over time, Kubota bought additional land and grew the garden to 20 acres. 
The garden became a center of Seattle Japanese American social and cultural activity for decades. The Kubota and Mukai families were friends with a shared love of gardening.

Join us this Thursday, June 11 @5PM 
Joy Ozaki and Dylan Okimoto, board members of the Kubota Garden Foundation board, will be participating and answering questions during and after the screening.

To register for the movie, please enter your name and email address by following the register button, below. The link for the watch party and instructions will be sent to all registrants the day before the screening.
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Mukai Farm & Garden Stands in Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter
1969 Rally in Oakland, CA

Throughout the country and here in Washington, we are witnessing anger, pain, frustration and the call for justice in our communities as a result of the death of George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement, and the larger issue of bias, racism and violence against black and brown people. These overwhelming and surmounting incidents point to our country’s very real and painful history of racism and specifically, the culture of anti-blackness.  Much of the public response has been channeled into peaceful demonstrations and protests to ask for greater police accountability and to ask our community to stop devaluing our black and brown people who continue to be harmed and killed. 

Mukai Farm & Garden stands in solidarity and allyship with the peaceful protestors and changemakers petitioning our governments for police/legal reform and redress. Our mission and storylines look in part to the past historical injustices experienced by Japanese Americans as a result of racism, and look to the future in our commitment to stand for human rights and social justice for all immigrants and individuals. Our hearts go out to all of those who are grieving and suffering during this time, and we pledge to continue to support the fight for equity and social justice for all those who are marginalized.

#BlackLivesMatter #NeverAgain

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