Formosa to Oregon by Philip H. Elwood, 1929 part 1

Iowa State College landscape architecture professors Philip H. Elwood and Walter Popham took 4 students (Bethane Carpenter, John Hall, Max Bird, and Norman Morris) on a tour of Japan, China, the Philippine Islands, and Hawaii in 1929. This videodisc covers highlights of Formosa, China and Japan. In Amoy, China the group first visits the home of Wai Joe, then see Camel Rock from the garden of a merchant, and see the private garden of another wealthy Chinese merchant.

From there it is on to Formosa (Taiwan) and a shrine at Keelung, (Chi-Lung) and a visit to the city square. It is then on to Taihoku (Taipei) to see a Chinese temple and Japanese shrine, a great camphor tree near the inn, and the proprietress and daughter of the Asumya Inn, Tianan. Also on the island they pass by banana orchards, rice fields, bamboo groves, Chinese homes, and distant mountains.

They then travel back to Japan where they see wayside wanderers by the road, Mt. Hiei and Lake Biwa, wayside shrines, giant cryptomerias. they also see the Garden of the Golden Pavilion, Kinkakuji, glimpse Koyoto gardens, meet Professor Sekiguchi and Mr. Ida, their guides and hosts in Kyoto, see the entrance Garden gateway to Horai Garden, and a street in Tokyo showing newly planted trees.

Sailing from Yokohama on board the "Arabia Maru" they cross the "gentel" Pacific for the port of Victoria, British Columbia. From they begin they journey back to Iowa by passing through the Cascade Mountains between Seattle and Portland.

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Education

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• Philip
• Elwood
• Japan
• China
• Formosa
• Taiwan
• Taipei
• Garden of the Golden Pavilion
• Iowa State University

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This is amazing!!