“Domon Ken, the famous photographer, was a friend of mine. The small city of his birth was building him a museum, and the architect Yoshio Taniguchi, with whose father I had done my earliest work in Japan, asked me to do the interior garden with sculpture. Water flows over the entire area of granite steps and cascades into the lake.” (Isamu Noguchi, The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987, 188.)