, was an American

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and

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Biography

Kaneji Domoto was born in

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, on November 5, 1912 to Kanetaro ("Tom") and Teru Morita Domoto as the eighth of 11 children. He attended

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and

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. He was forcibly interned at the

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during

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following the signing of

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. He studied with

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and had a 50+ year career. Kan's career in architecture and landscape design spanned over 50 years, and included both residential and commercial projects. He received many awards for his Japanese-American gardens including the

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Award for his Jackson Park design. He also published a book on bonsai. Following the death of his first wife, Sally, who died in 1978, and in 1992 he married cookbook author Sylvia Schur. Domoto died January 27, 2002 at the age of 89. In addition to his 4 children, at his time of death, he had 3 stepchildren, 6 grandchildren, 1 great granddaughter, 2 sisters, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Publications

Domoto co-authored ''Bonsai and the Japanese garden'' (1974; ) with George Kay.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Domoto, Kaneji 1912 births 2002 deaths American landscape architects 20th-century American architects American people of Japanese descent Japanese-American internees Artists from New Rochelle, New York