The story of how there came to be a Japanese garden in Gresham in the first place has its roots with two farmers. Ed Fujii and Kaz Tamura were working with the city in the 1970s on city parks and decided, “maybe we can do something here,” Takeuchi says of the property adjacent to the Springwater Trail and encircled by Johnson Creek. They brought in wheelbarrows full of rocks from the Clackamas River and made a garden out of a small island, complete with a bridge to access it. Read more about the incarnation of this beautiful garden in Gresham at the link in our bio. 🌸 📸: seanspix #japanesegarden #japanese #gresham #greshamoregon #oregon #traveloregon #theoregonian