We Are Tomodachi Winter 2016

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11Yasuo InomataBorn in Iwate Prefecture in 1938. Currently lives in Escobar, Argentina. Graduated from the Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture, in 1961. Moved to Argentina in 1966, where he began to work as a landscape architect. Received the honored citizen award of the city of Escobar in 2004. Selected as one of Argentina’s six representative artists in 2005. Also awarded for his management and craft skills by Tokyo University of Agriculture in 2009. 1. The Japanese Garden of Palermo Woods was refurbished in 1979 with design and guidance by Inomata. The garden has become a famous spot visited by many Argentinians and foreigners. 2. Inomata (left) works at preparations for the 2013 flower festival in Escobar. Local workers know him as a strict supervisor but have great confidence in him. 3. Trees’ roots are bound with straw and rope—a Japanese technique called tarumaki—before they are transplanted as part of the repair and expansion of a Buenos Aires ring road. Argentinians were greatly surprised at the transplanted trees’ survival rate of 95%. 4. Escobar’s flower festival, the Fiesta Nacional de la Flor, has evolved into an artistic exhibition-style event through Inomata’s involvement.1243

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