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JOJG STAFF
DOUGLAS
M. ROTH (Publisher) is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy in
Annapolis, Maryland. In 1988 he established The Isshiki Zoo, a children’s
English language school in Hayama, Japan. After passing the Japanese
National Language test, he began a traditional five-year gardening
apprenticeship in Kamakura. His specialties include engineering,
arboriculture, water feature construction, and traditional Japanese
architecture.
TAMAO
GODA (Art Director) is an illustrator and professional gardener.
Daughter of well-known Japanese artists Sawako Goda and Tomio Miki, she has
lived in many unusual places including Egypt and New York City. After
graduating from Hosoh University (Tokyo) and Cedar Crest College (USA), she
worked in Kamakura with master gardeners Susumu Saito and Yoshiyuki Goto.
She creates the illustrations used in JOJG and is responsible for JOJG’s
research projects, reference library, and Japanese-language correspondence.
TIMOTHY
J. HANSKEN (Copy Editor) is an Asian linguist and Japanese garden
builder from Occidential, California. The U.S. Army taught him the
Korean Language and sent him to Asia, where, post-enlistment he lived in
Taiwan for several years. He majored in Chinese and Japanese at San
Francisco State University and then spent ten years establishing a bamboo
plant nursery in Northern California. Now he divides his time between
the United States and China, building Japanese gardens in both countries.
He teaches a regular Japanese garden design class at Merritt College and is
a leader in the Merritt Pruning Club in Oakland.
ASHER BROWNE (Writer) is a Japanese Garden builder and
aesthetic tree pruning specialist. He grew up in New York, where he
studied the fine arts before moving to Japan for 8 years. After
graduating from the Kansai University of Foreign Studies, he embarked on a
quest to learn the principles of Japanese gardening. He spent a total
of four years training at two different garden companies in Kyoto.
During that time he also completed Kyoto's prestigious Zoen Kumiai
certification program for craftsmen. He is an ISA-certified Arborist
and lives in New York with his Japanese wife and child.
JOHN
POWELL (Writer) is a garden builder and pruning specialist
from Weatherford, Texas. He is a 1983 graduate of West Virginia
University with a degree in Forestry. He currently is the co-owner of
Weatherford Gardens Nursery and Landscaping. After a first visit to
Japan in 1993, Mr. Powell launched an intensive study of Japanese garden
design, construction and maintenance. In 1997 he attended the first
Japanese Garden Seminar conducted by the Kyoto College of Art & Design.
This was followed by internships with Suzuki Zoen in Niigata, and most
recently at the Adachi Museum of Art (currently Japan's top-ranked garden)
in Shimane Prefecture.
