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Eriko Takefuji
Local ResidentEriko at a Chado Workshop at Mitcham Community Centre in 2025
As a dedicated instructor of the Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony (Chado), one of Japan’s oldest and largest tea traditions, I also conducts workshops introducing the art and spirit of Chado to Australian audiences.
Across my work in traditional crafts, landscape design and tea ceremony, I am passionate about sharing the richness of Japanese culture and the essence of Japanese aesthetics with people in Australia.
TAKEFUJI
While the online boutique is the heart of TAKEFUJI, Eriko also participates in Japanese cultural events and markets held in Adelaide, creating opportunities for people to discover and experience the richness of Japanese craftsmanship.
Launched in 2026, TAKEFUJI LAWLER is a landscape design practice that explores how Japanese aesthetics can be expressed within the unique natural environment of Australia. Working alongside her husband Richard, whose background is in architectural design, TAKEFUJI LAWLER aims to create gardens that are not confined to the traditional Japanese garden style, but instead draw on the essence of Japanese aesthetics to create spaces that respond to both people and nature.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Glenelg Shire
🤝 Mary MacKillop
Mary MacKillop lived and taught in Portland during the 1860s, before moving to Penola. Her experience included work in local schooling and establishing a private school, while family financial difficulties formed part of the background to those years. She left Portland in January 1866. The town’s heritage interpretation preserves this formative connection in the life of the educator who co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph. Portland belongs to the practical early story of teaching, earning a living and developing the educational commitments that later became her life’s work.
📚 Graeme Bucknall
Graeme Bucknall grew up on a farm in a bush community beside the lower Glenelg River and attended Drik Drik State School from 1916 to 1923. Forestry work preceded training for the Presbyterian ministry. His later career ranged from Victorian parishes to northern church leadership and pastoral patrols across remote station country. Historical research and writing followed alongside that work. The local childhood and school years matter because he later drew on his own understanding of isolation when visiting people far from towns. A rural beginning became useful preparation for a working life shaped by distance.
🌏 William Douglass Forsyth
William Douglass Forsyth was born at Casterton in 1909 and attended local schools before continuing his education at Ballarat. Teaching and historical research led towards international affairs and a diplomatic career. He helped develop the South Pacific Commission and became its first secretary-general, later representing Australia at the United Nations. His books ranged from convict administration to migration and Captain Cook’s landfalls. Casterton supplied the local beginnings of a life increasingly concerned with Australia’s relationships beyond its borders. The early teacher and historian remained visible in a diplomat whose work depended on research, argument and understanding how institutions might be built.
