Viswa Bharati to restore its Japanese gardens

Viswa Bharati has decided to restore the Japanese gardens present in its campus. The campus has three Japanese gardens - one situated beside Udayan house in Uttarayan complex, the second garden at Nippon Bhavan and third near the Nandan gallery of Kala Bhavan. The Japanese Department of Biswa Bharati recently made an appeal to the Consul General of Japan in Calcutta Masayuki Taga to help the university restore the gardens present in its campus by providing an expert gardener who would be able to fix the gardens in accordance to the Japanese culture. One of the gardens, the one beside Udayan was designed by Rabindranath Tagore himself in 1930, and the other two situated at Nippon Bhavana and near Nandan gallery were designed by the then Japanese language professor Saini Makino and a group of scholars from Japan respectively. The head of Japanese department of Biswa Bharati, Gita A Keeni said, “We wanted to restore our Japanese gardens but we had no expert gardener. So, we requested the consul general of Japan in Calcutta who has helped us get the expert. The expert in Japanese garden, Fumio Thukamoto, will visit the campus soon”.