https://www.huntington.org/center-east-asian-garden-studies
For Los Angelenos, the Huntington Gardens offer an exquisite space to explore a diversity of gardens, European and American art and artifacts, a library of California history, the western canon including Shakespeare folios and a Gutenberg Bible, documents of Scientific History, and rotating exhibits. And, even if you are unable to visit the physical space, there are excellent web resources as well. Specifically to this course, there is a dedicated focus on East Asia as well. Here is the description from the webpage:
The Huntington's Center for East Asian Garden Studies promotes innovative scholarship on the traditions of garden-making in China, Japan, and Korea. Furthering the educational mission of The Huntington's Chinese and Japanese Gardens, the Center makes these traditions accessible to wide audiences through lectures, workshops, symposia, exhibitions, and performances.
There are a variety of recorded lectures on the website including a recent one on The Tale of Genji.
You can also find podcasts and a variety of short articles and photographs that connect nature to content.
In addition, there are tours which demonstrate a Japanese Tea Ceremony, and other educational programs for Elementary Schoolers and up that connect Chinese poetry with garden cultivation.
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