Kubota Garden

This guide to Kubota Garden in Seattle begins in 1927, with Japanese immigrant Fujitaro Kubota digging into swamp mud on land he could not legally own under Washington's Alien Land Law, using a friend's name to hold the title. It follows him turning five waterlogged acres into thirty, and the 1942 order that sent his family to Camp Minidoka in Idaho, where he still built a rock garden for fellow prisoners. Walk the ponds and the two red bridges as you listen, tracing ground he first drained by hand.