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Lili'uokalani Gardens in Hilo currently is composed of four parks: Rakuen C.C. Kennedy was president of the Hilo Board of Trade, a position that gave
(Happiness Park), Isles, Moku Ola (Coconut Island)and the tropical the couple entrée to a Honolulu businessmen's tour of Japan in 1914
Japanese landscape many old timers call Nihon Koen. The size of organized by S. Sheba editor of Hawaii Shinpo.The excursion group traveled
Lili'uokalani Gardens is 24.67 acres, with the Japanese style garden from Yokohama to Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Kobe, Miyajima, and other
accounting for slightly more than 20 acres and Moku Ola measuring slightly locations.
more than three acres.
While there viewing The Golden Pavilion at Kyoto, Laura Kennedy
A Japanese garden and tea house was a dream of many Hilo residents "conceived the idea that the old Waiakea fish ponds could be turned into a
dating back to the early 1900s. Hawaii residents traveled to Japan, the park just as beautiful." Hilo Fujin Shinkokai (the Japanese Women's
mainland U.S. and other countries where World's Fairs and Expositions Friendship Association) under president Mrs. Machida agreed. By 1917, with
featured garden exhibits.Residential, commercial, and public Japanese assistance from Norman Lyman, 17 acres including the ponds were set
gardens were built in Honolulu dating back to the first Japanese immigrants aside for a Japanese garden. Act 53 was signed into law by Gov. Pinkham in
(Gannen Mono in 1868). There was a surge of garden construction with the April 1917. "Mr. C.C. Kennedy donated the first thousand dollars."
arrival of more Japanese immigrants (Kanyaku Imin in 1885 through 1924).
Construction began on Lili'uokalani Gardens in November 1917.A small
King David Kalakaua had two Japanese gardeners on staff at lolani Palace. tsunami inundated the area in September 1918 and again in February 1923.
They built gardens for Queen Kapi'olani at a property she owned on Larger tidal waves brought destruction in April 1946 and May 1960.
Beretania Street and another for the King's ambassador to Japan, W.R. Irwin Significant reconstruction efforts were done in 1949 and 1968. Additions
and his wife, on the Plains. were made to the park in 1933, 1972, 1976 and 2000 and now Lili'uokalani
Gardens is slightly larger than 24 acres including three nearby parks.
By the Federal Census of 1910,Japanese immigrants accounted for 43%of
the population of Hawaii, and most of them lived in Hawaii County where Mrs. Kennedy was on the Hilo Park Commission and helped in efforts to
the majority of sugar production happened. beautify Hilo. She donated three big Monkey Pod trees and a row of Golden
Shower trees in Mo'oheau Park"so that baseball players could in part at
In Hilo,Japanese women formed a beautification committee. One of their least avoid the hot sun."
goals was a tea house and garden. Some thought placement near Mo'oheau
bandstand was desired. She continued to support Lili'uokalani Gardens and the larger Hilo
community throughout her life.
Meanwhile, in 1912 sugar mill manager C.C. Kennedy retired after 37 years
building and managing Waiakea Sugar Mill. Kennedy also was president of Throughout its 100 year history, noted landscapers from Japan have helped
HELCO, president of the First Bank of Hilo, and publisher of the Hilo Tribune, local garden contractors and community businesses to improve the gardens.
predecessor to the Hawaii Tribune-Herald. They had a beach home on the They include: Y.K. Yamamoto (1917-1920?), Kiyoshi Takana Nakamura
Waiakea peninsula that became the first Hilo Yacht Club and later the first (1930s), Nagao Sakurai (1949 restoration), Kinsaku Nakane (1968
Naniloa Hotel. They had a mountain home known as Bide-A-Wee in restoration), Kazuo Nakamura (1964 and 1976), and Takuhiro Yamada (mid-
Volcano. In 1913, they participated in the formation of the Hawaiian 2000s). [partial list]
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