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Guests on the veranda of Shofuso after the 1976 restoration, 1977 Taeko Shervin conducts a Japanese tea ceremony for visitors, 1981 Warren Watanabe enjoys some noodles at the Horticulture Center, 1982 Warren Watanabe volunteering at a Shofuso cleaning day, 1982 Koinobori, or koi flags, are on display as a family in traditional dress celebrates Children's Day at Shofuso, 1983 Warren Watanabe surveys the progress on installing a stone foot path at Shofuso, 1983 Members of JACL Philadelphia working a booth during Super Sunday, a Philadelphia block party along the Parkway, 1983 Louise Maehara (left) and friends resting in the garden, 1984 Mary and Warren Watanabe and Joseph Zuritsky, all board members, on the veranda of Shofuso as the tatami is aired out, 1983 Mary Watanabe (center) discusses plans for the site with Masao Kinoshita (right), a landscape architect, 1983 Reiko Gaspar (right) hanging out during one of Shofuso's festivals, 1983 Shofuso decorated for Tanabata, the Star Festival, 1983 Taeko Shervin (left) and Michiko Bley (right) dancing during the Obon Festival, 1983 The Obon Festival set-up at Shofuso, 1983 Warren Watanabe at a booth during a Shofuso festival, 1984 Shofuso's teahouse and bathhouse showing some wear and tear, 1984 Mary Watanabe in front of the house during Children's Day, 1984 Reiko Gaspar giving an educational tour of Shofuso, 1984 Reiko Gaspar helping a child put on yukata, 1984 Taeko Shervin posing with one of the newly planted trees around Shofuso's fence, 1985 Friends of the Japanese House & Garden at the Fairmount Park Progressive Dinner, 1985 A banner, titled "Born Free and Equal," at the Japanese American Experience exhibit at the Balch Institute, 1985 A traditional dance is performed on Shofuso's veranda, 1985 A statue of Jizo is installed in the garden, 1986 Warren Watanabe (left) and Marcel Shervin (right) at Shofuso, 1986 Taeko Shervin enjoying her lunch break on a cleaning day, 1986 Louise Maehara working a booth at the Horticulture Center, 1986 Warren and Mary Watanabe at Judge William Marutani's event, the Constitution and Asian Americans, 1987 Judge William Marutani (right) at the talk he presented to the Friends as part of their winter lecture series on Asian Americans and civil rights, 1987 Reiko Gaspar (right) setting up for an origami demonstration, 1987 Reiko Gaspar representing the Friends at a booth, 1987 Shigeko Kawano, a volunteer, helping maintain the garden, 1988 Louise Maehara working in the garden, 1988 Reiko Gaspar in the garden, 1988 L to R: Louise Maehara, Don McPhail, Ann McPhail, Mary Watanabe, and Mary Lou Fleisher at Fairmount Park's Horticulture Center, 1988 Mary Watanabe at a Japanese folk fair, 1989 L to R: Warren Watanabe, Mary Watanabe, and Steve Yanai on a work trip with Rohm and Haas in Japan, 1989 Volunteers and board members cleaning the house, 1995 Japanese craftsmen working on Shofuso's tea house roof, 1999 Supporters, including Grayce and Hiroshi Uyehara, gather in front of Shofuso as the restoration of the hinoki bark roof is underway, 1999 Japanese craftsmen working to restore Shofuso's traditional hinoki bark roof, 1999 Louise Maehara (front right) at a Tanabata festival, 1999 Shigeko Kawano working a mingei, or folk arts, booth at a festival, 1999 Visitors to Shofuso celebrate Obon by floating paper lanterns in the pond, 1999 Japanese craftsmen working to restore Shofuso's traditional hinoki bark roof, 1999 Mary and Warren Watanabe (right) in front of Shofuso, 1969 Volunteers air out the tatami, 1996 Louise Maehara (left) posing in front of Shofuso, 1990s Aikido demonstration at Shofuso, 1990s Japanese tea ceremony demonstration, 1990s Visitors sitting on the veranda, 1990s Isao Okumura (center), an original carpenter of Shofuso, visiting the house in the 1990s. Hiroshi Uyehara (center), a president of the Friends, at an event on site, 1991 Taeko Shervin (left) and Mary Watanabe (right) discussing an idea in the garden, 1991 Reiko Gaspar at a festival, 1991 Cooking Japanese food at Shofuso, 1990s Original workers on Shofuso, including Dick Koga (right), a Hawaiian Nisei carpenter, 1950s Beginning stages of Shofuso's construction in Fairmount Park, 1957 Isao Okumura, an original carpenter of Shofuso, doing some repair work on the House during a visit, 2004 Constructing fukinagashi, a traditional wind sock decoration, for Tanabata, the Star Festival, 1990s Hiroshi Uyehara at a Tanabata festival, 1990s Mary Watanabe at a Tanabata festival, 1990s Vandalism damage done to Shofuso's shoin room, 1970s Vandalism done to Shofuso's shoin room, 1970s Original team of workers for Shofuso's construction, 1950s Isamu Noguchi (left), a prominent Japanese American artist, at a reception hosted in his honor by the Friends, 1988 Mary Watanabe speaking a reception honoring Isamu Noguchi, a prominent Japanese American artist, 1988 Mary Watanabe accepting a proclamation from the city celebrating Shofuso's 25th Anniversary, 1983 Judge William Marutani (center) at the ceremony celebrating Shofuso's 25th Anniversary, 1983 L to R: Warren Watanabe, Mary Watanabe, and Steve Yanai on a work trip with Rohm and Haas in Japan, 1989 Judge William Marutani (right) swearing in at City Hall, 1977. Credit: Smithsonian Institution Visitors at Shofuso, 1960s Reiko Nakawatase Gaspar with her classmates at Arizona's Poston Camp Japanese garden outside of school barracks, 1944 Hoh Daiko drummers performing outside Shofuso, 1999 1999 Louise Maehara (center) Reiko Gaspar (center) and Shigeko Kawano (right) Louise Maehara, 1986 Ikebana display 1950s Volunteers during their lunch break, 1984 Visitors watching a traditional dance performance on the veranda, 1986 The house and garden blanketed with snow, 1983 Church group at Rohwer War Relocation Center, Arkansas Mary Watanabe sitting at the base of a large tree in Fairmount Park, 1985 Louise Maehara, 1990s Louise Maehara, 1990s L to R: Michael Burch, neighborhood kid, mom Sarah Burch, at Shofuso, 1976 Mary Watanabe, 1984 Mary Watanabe (right) in the garden, 1983 Louise Maehara (center) Construction in the garden, 1983 Visitors eating lunch on the veranda, 1986 Louise Maehara (left), Michiko Bley, 1985 Louise Maehara on cleaning day, 1987 Visitors in the garden at Shofuso, 1983 Funeral at an incarceration camp Gerald Kita at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming Grayce Kaneda (Uyehara) interviewed about resettlement by local radio Grayce Kaneda (Uyehara), fourth from the right, lining up to leave Stockton Assembly Center Hiroshi Uyehara and Fuku Yokoyama at Independence Hall Hiroshi Uyehara with his sister Yuriko Inouye family at Philadelphia Hostel Inouye family on the steps of Philadelphia Hostel Isamu (left) and Kiku (right) at Rohwer War Relocation Center, Arkansas, 1945 Japanese Americans in the Kogita garden at Minidoka War Relocation Center, Idaho. Credit: WRA Japanese garden at Poston War Relocation Center, Arizona. Credit: Frank Miwa A garden at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, California. Credit: WRA Minidoka War Relocation Center Block 26 Garden and Pond, Idaho. Credit: Joe Tanaka Moriuchi family dinner Marion Okajima (Nakashima), Mira Nakashima, and Marion's father at Minidoka War Relocation Center. Feb. 21, 1943. Credit: Nakashima Foundation for Peace Resettlers at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia Resettlers walking in front of Independence Hall Resettlers sitting below the Commodore John Barry Statue at Independence Hall Resettlers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art courtyard Resettlers listen to spirituals Shipping at Seabrook Farms The field at Seabrook Farms Five young evacuees having luncheon in the cafeteria at Seabrook Farms George Matsui (left), formerly of the Jerome and Gila River Relocation Centers, and his fellow workers unloading lima beans at Seabrook Farms Mrs. Ellen Ayako Nakamura (right), liaison officer between the management of Seabrook Farms Taniguchi family Tsunayoshi George Kaneda (left) at Hotel Whittier in Philadelphia War Relocation Authority office jobs and housing Bridge night at Philadelphia Hostel National Japanese American Student Relocation Council in Philadelphia, 1944

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