{"id":112602,"date":"2024-02-15T14:41:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/?p=112602"},"modified":"2024-02-15T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T22:43:12","slug":"this-secret-sanctuary-in-bodega-bay-has-a-jewel-box-of-a-japanese-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/this-secret-sanctuary-in-bodega-bay-has-a-jewel-box-of-a-japanese-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"This Secret Sanctuary in Bodega Bay Has a Jewel Box of a Japanese Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concealed behind a gate just steps from Highway 1 in Bodega Bay is is a jewel box of a Japanese garden, filled with meticulously sculpted cypress and pine trees, a flowering cherry, a dry stone river\u2014even a tiny teahouse. It\u2019s the result of owner and gallerist Ren Brown\u2019s lifelong passion for the art and culture of Japan.<\/p>\n

Brown and his late husband, Robert DeVee, moved to Bodega Bay in 1989 to open a gallery dedicated to Japanese art. The couple quickly found a location\u2014a well-lit space with frontage along Highway 1 to capture coastal visitor traffic. Fortunately, just behind the gallery was a sturdily built, though rather dated, cottage.<\/p>\n

Realizing their luck, the couple bought the property and made plans to remodel the home. Both home and garden now incorporate Japanese design principles and aesthetics. Outside, that means a restful, peaceful garden with such hallmarks as a rock garden, carefully trimmed evergreens, bonsai, and wabi-sabi stone footbridges. Inside, the Japanese touches include shoji screens, tatami mats, and antique tansu chests of every size to display Brown\u2019s collection of Japanese ceramics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s what I love,\u201d says Brown.<\/p>\n

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Ren Brown at his gallery and Japanese garden in Bodega Bay. (Erik Castro\/for Sonoma Magazine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Though Brown grew up in the East Bay, his childhood was steeped in the culture of Japan. His mother had been born and raised there, the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary who traveled throughout Japan\u2019s smallest island on horseback to convert the locals. As a young college graduate, Brown\u2019s father traveled to Japan during the Depression, looking for teaching work. His father later earned a doctorate in Japanese history and taught the subject at UC Berkeley for many years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was always surrounded by Japanese visitors coming to the house, Japanese art and ceramics,\u201dsays Brown.<\/p>\n

From the mundane to the sacred<\/strong><\/h4>\n

His tranquil courtyard garden, completely enclosed by a wooden fence, feels worlds away from the highway just beyond. One enters through a traditional torii gate, a gate commonly found at the entrance to or within a Shinto shrine, symbolically marking the transitional step from the mundane world to the sacred one.<\/p>\n

The torii at the entrance to Brown\u2019s garden was made by Sonoma County sculptor Bruce Johnson. Brown first became familiar with Johnson\u2019s piece when he was curating an exhibit at Sebastopol Center for the Arts. The exhibit was meant to allow the local Japanese American community to show appreciation for those who supported them while they were incarcerated during World War II.<\/p>\n

Related:<\/span>\nLooking for a Zen Escape? Travel to Japan via Sonoma County<\/a><\/div>\n

The torii, which features hammered metal and redwood and a sculpted juniper tree growing in the middle, is angled to frame a view of the garden. It centers on the pond, where shimmering koi glide peacefully through the water and the gentle sound of a small waterfall echoes peacefully among the stones.<\/p>\n

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The gentle sound of a small waterfall echoes peacefully among the stones (Erik Castro\/for Sonoma Magazine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Shimmering koi glide peacefully through the water. (Erik Castro\/for Sonoma Magazine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the jewel box space, serpentine stone pathways lead past water features and plantings of Japanese maples, now mostly bare in the winter season.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a small dry-gravel garden, much like ones seen in Japanese homes and temples in Kyoto. The raking of the gravel around the islands of stone is a meditative, cleansing ritual, particularly after a winter rain.<\/p>\n

Masterly sculpted evergreens<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Precisely sculpted evergreens are a fundamental feature of traditional Japanese gardens. To shape his trees, Brown sought out Michael Alliger, a master aesthetic pruner who for many years has also maintained the exquisite garden at Osmosis Day Spa in Freestone.<\/p>\n

Alliger says that while Brown\u2019s garden is smaller than the one at Osmosis, it is very authentic in both hardscape and in the palette of plants and koi. Standout specimen trees, winding paths that reveal new views around each small bend, and the innovative use of stone are all hallmarks of traditional Japanese garden design, explains Alliger.<\/p>\n

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Precisely sculpted evergreens are a fundamental feature of traditional Japanese gardens. (Erik Castro\/for Sonoma Magazine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Japanese black pines and other specimen trees are carefully trimmed to open up the branches and showcase the trunk and branching structure. The pruning isn\u2019t hard, says Alliger, but it does take a lot of focus, concentration, and timing.<\/p>\n

Each season has its own beauty<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Winter reveals details that might be missed at other times of the year: the shape of branches bare of leaves, delicate catkins cascading down from the twisted walking-stick tree. Even the borrowed scenery: a reflection of sky and hillside on water, or a glimpse of the coast over the garden wall, seems more vivid in winter. Brown says that the garden receives less moisture than gardens do in Japan, so the moss isn\u2019t as lush as it might be, but there are softened edges of green that might not be as apparent in summertime.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe garden has beauty every month of the year,\u201d says Brown. \u201cThere are different things that bloom, new views revealed. But the strength and power of the shaped tree is what holds everything together and makes it unified.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In gallerist Ren Brown’s Japanese garden in Bodega Bay. (Erik Castro\/for Sonoma Magazine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brown often reminds himself to slow down and take time to enjoy the serenity of the space.<\/p>\n

\u201cToo often, gardeners find themselves focusing on all the things to do\u2014the deadheading and the weeding. They don\u2019t spend time just enjoying,\u201d he says. \u201cJapanese garden styles are meant to make you slow down\u2014to take the sharply angled path, to follow around the corner, to take in that next view. You\u2019re compelled to breathe it in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Related:<\/span>\nCedar Enzyme Baths and More: How to Do a Self Care Day in West County<\/a><\/div>\n
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Ren Brown\u2019s gallery of Japanese art features rotating exhibits of ceramics, works on paper, and other finds. (Erik Castro\/for Sonoma Magazine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Visiting the gallery and garden<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Gallery owner Ren Brown will happily share his garden with gallery guests who would like share in the space\u2019s serenity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole point of a gallery is to offer beauty, and the garden is another way of doing that,\u201d says Brown. \u201cWe often find that people who come to visit the gallery can enjoy the art even more after spending a few minutes in the garden.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ren Brown\u2019s gallery of Japanese art features rotating exhibits of ceramics, works on paper, and other finds and is open year-round, 10 a.m.5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Ren Brown Collection, 1781 Highway 1, Bodega Bay. 707-875-2922, renbrown.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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