The garden is of great historical significance, being the first to have been created by a sculptor. His creation is perhaps more profoundly Japanese than anything a Japanese artist who had remained in Japan would have created, because he was trying to understand the culture of his childhood.
Isamu Noguchi is a deeply Japanese sculptor but ultimately very international and modern in his assertion of himself as an artist (a Western concept).
UNESCO’s garden, a donation by the japanese government, is marked throughout by the Japanese spirit and at the same time it expresses Noguchi’s individual artistic creativity.
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