Who is “Mirei Shigemori”?

Mirei Shigemori was born in the Yoshikawa district, Kibichuo Town in 1896. He devoted himself to mastering the traditional Japanese arts of tea ceremony and flower arrangement. As a renowned landscape designer in the Showa Era, he distinguished himself by creating landscape designs which have been handed down for posterity. It is believed that he influenced the famous landscape designer and sculptor Isamu Noguchi.