Makoto Hagiwara
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Baron Makoto Hagiwara (萩原 眞 Hagiwara Makoto)(15 August 1854-12 September 1925)[1][2] was a Japanese American immigrant and landscape designer responsible for the creating and maintaining the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California from 1895 until his death in 1925. He is often credited with having invented the fortune cookie in California.[3][4]
[edit] References
- ^ "San Francisco Mortuary Records by SFgenealogy", http://www.sfgenealogy.com/php/sfmrsearch/sfmrindex.php, retrieved March 7, 2010
- ^ "VitalSearch-California Deaths", http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/gen/ca/_vitals/cadeathm.htm, retrieved March 7, 2010
- ^ Ono, Gary (2007-10-31). "Japanese American Fortune Cookie: A Taste of Fame or Fortune -- Part II". http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/1935.
- ^ Lee, Jennifer 8. (January 16, 2008). "Solving a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside a Cookie". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/dining/16fort.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1.
[edit] External links
- A brief history of the Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA USA, An account by Erik Sumiharu Hagiwara-Nagata. 1999.
- A Brief History of The Fortune Cookie, An account by Erik Sumiharu Hagiwara-Nagata, 2008
- Makoto Hagiwara and San Francisco's Japanese Tea Garden John Tambis, Pacific Horticulture Magazine,vol. 45,number 1 Spring 1984
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