Makoto Hagiwara

Makoto Hagiwara (萩原 眞, Hagiwara Makoto) (15 August 1854 – 12 September 1925)[1][2] was a Japanese-born American landscape designer responsible for the maintenance and expansion of the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California, from 1895 until his death in 1925.[3] Hagiwara is often credited with the invention of the fortune cookie in California.[4][5]

  1. ^ San Francisco Mortuary Records by SFgenealogy, retrieved 2022-04-20
  2. ^ VitalSearch-California Deaths, retrieved March 7, 2010
  3. ^ Gorelick, Meyer (February 15, 2020), "Japanese American family at heart of beloved Golden Gate", San Francisco Examiner
  4. ^ Ono, Gary (2007-10-31). "Japanese American Fortune Cookie: A Taste of Fame or Fortune -- Part II".
  5. ^ Lee, Jennifer 8. (January 16, 2008). "Solving a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside a Cookie". The New York Times.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)