Makoto Hagiwara
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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 creation and maintenance of the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California from 1895 until his death in 1925. He is often credited with the invention of the fortune cookie in California.[3][4]
He was born to a farm family in Japan and went to the US in 1879. He used to be the owner of a restaurant called "Yamatoya" in San Francisco.[5]
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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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