JA                          Sanyu-en Bonsai-Dan (History of Bonsai in the Sanyu nursery) ; 1910.  Apparently the first book which treats the subject of wiring. 2

JA                          Taiten Kinen, Bonsai Meihin Shu (Anniversary of Taiten, Collection of Excellent Bonsai) ; 1929.  Two volumes which contain numerous photographs of the outstanding specimens in Japan for that year.

ZH                         Wanshizhai Lingyan shipu (Lingyan Stone Catalogue of the Wanshi Studio) ; 1924.

           Beard, [Emma] Patten   Adventures in Dish Gardening ; New York: A.T. DeLaMare Company, Inc.; 1930.  204 pp.  Illustrated by the author.  Photographs by H.E. Griffin and Curtis Owens.  Four color plates and sixty b&w half-tones. 

JA      DaiNihon Bonsai Kyokai  Zenkoku Bonsai Chinretsu Taikai Kinen Chyo (A Souvenir Booklet of the First All Japan Bonsai Exhibition) ; Greater Japan Bonsai Association; 1941.

ZH      Hsia, I-pin   Hua hui p'en tsai fa ; Shanghai: Shang wu yin shu kuan; 1935.  114 pp.  Illustrations.       New 01/07/06

JA      Inoue, Masayoshi  Bonsai Teien Matsu Baiyo Oyobi Teireho (Methods of Training and Maintaining Garden Pines as Bonsai) ; Daigaku Kan; 1912.

JA      Ishii, Isayoshi   Saishin Bonsai No Shitate Kata (Newest Bonsai Techniques) ; Kinseido; 1938. 

JA      Kaibara, Tooru   Jumoku Bonsai Ron (A Discussion on Bonsai) ; 1910.

JA      Katō, Ginjirō   Bonsai baiyōhō ; Tōkyō: Sangin Suisekien; 1921.  89 pp.  Illustrations.      New 01/07/06

JA      Katō, Ginjirō   Bonkei hitorikoshirae, tsuketari suiseki biko ; Tōkyō: Sangin Suisekien; 1906.  LCC #90186398.  Illustrations.

JA      Katsuno, Buseki   Hosokawa-ryu shiki no keizu ; 1912.    New 12/29/07

JA      Katsuno, Hakuen   Bonseki chokuden no zu ; 1912.    New 12/29/07

JA      Katsuno, Hakuen   Rikyu Takasago nijuhachi bonkeizu ; 1912.    New 12/29/07

JA      Katsuno, Haruo   Hosokawa-ryu shin hyakkeizu hen ; Hosokawa-ryu Bonsekikei Iemoto Jimusho; 1929.    New 12/29/07

JA      Kibe Yonekichi   Bonsai Baiyo Ho (Cultivation Methods for Bonsai) ; Tōkyō: Sangin Suisekien; 1903.

           Kiktavi, John  How to Grow and Cultivate Miniature Living Trees ; Published and distributed by Living Ming Trees, National Nursery Supply, Inglewood, CA; July 1949.  47 pp.  Forty-two b&w photos and twenty-two figures or sets of line drawings.  Cover title is " how to grow living miniature Ming Trees at home ".  A wire-bound 25-page version with a green textured paper cover apparently was issued earlier that year.

JA      Kobayashi, Norio    Ima no bonsai to sono baiyōhō (Contemporary Bonsai and their Care) ; Tōkyō: Kusamurakai; 1936.  152 pp.  Illustrations.      New 01/07/06

           Koehn, Alfred  Japanese Tray Landscapes ; Peking: Lotus Court Publications; 1937.  First edition.  52 pp.  Illustrations. 

JA      Komatsu, Shizan   Bankei no tsukurikata ; Tōkyō: Shizan-ryu Bankei Soke; 1934.  LCC #94464152.  Illustrations.

JA      Maruyama, Shinji  Bonsai, Baiyoujitsuken (Bonsai, Experiments in Culture) ; Hakubukan; 1934.

FR      Maumené, Albert  Les Arbes nains japonais, Leur formation au Japon, Leur utilisation et leur traitement eu Europe ; Paris: Librairie Horticole; 1902.  60 pp.  Sixteen b&w photos. The earliest known work in a European language entirely on the subject.  E-texte edition 2002.

JA       Miyasawa, Bungo  Bonsai, tsuketari hachiue kaki ; Tōkyō: Yokendo; 1922; Gen-shin-sha; 1923.  1925 printing of first, LCC #86207266.  Possibly 1931 edition or printing also existed.  

JA       Morinaga, Tatsuo   Bonkei sanbyakushu ; Kinryudō; 1935.  Shinsen bonkei sanbyakushu on cover.    New 12/29/07

JA       Murata, Kenji  Showa Bonsai Itsupinsyu (A Sampling of Showa Bonsai) ; Kojuen; 1937.

JA       Murata, Kojuen  Konishi To Watanabe Shozo Bonsai Tenkan Mokuroku (Konishi and Watanabe: A Program for Two Families' Bonsai Exhibit) ; 1936.

JA       Murata, Sōjirō and Shōichi Koyama    Shashin zukai bonkei no tsukurikata ; Bunbudō; 1918.    New 12/29/07

JA       Nakajima, Nobuyoshi   Bonsai Shitate Hiho ; Tōkyō: Hakubunkan; 1902.  172 pp.  Illustrations.   Describes the contemporary state of the art: "There was heavy influence from Chinese culture in the early Meiji period which resulted in a type of bunjin bonsai and a strong demand for Chinese bonsai pots occurred, especially among the sophisticated gentlemen.  Some of the favorite types are namako [sea cucumber], kochi [glazed], shidei [purple clay], shadei [sand clay], and ohibi [large crackled glaze]."  This work also contains an article dated 1603 accompanied by a sketch of a pine rooted over a rock.  The tree is in a low, wide, drum-nail studded pot, tan/orange in color, sitting on a low bamboo stand. 4

JA        Nakajima, Nobuyoshi    Somoku Jikken Bonsai Shitate-ho (Secrets of dwarf-tree growing) ; 1917.  172 pp.    New 01/07/06

JA        Nishikawa, Issōtei    Bontei to bonseki ; Sōgensha; 1936.    New 12/29/07

JA        Nomura, Yasutaro  Bonsai Shoku Butsu Saisyu Oyabi Baiyo Hou (Creating and Maintaining Plants for Bonsai) ; Daigaku Kan; 1906.

JA        Nozaki, Nobuo   Komono bonsai shitatekata: tsuketari sansō yasō ; Tōkyō: Hakubunkan; 1931.     New 01/07/06

JA        Nozaki, Nobuo  Shumi No Jumoku Bonsai: Shitate Hihou (The Hobby of Bonsai Trees: Cultural Secrets) ; Tōkyō: Sanseidō; 1938.  LCC #98838139.  252 pp.  Illustrations.   

             Nozaki, Shinobu  Dwarf Trees ( Bonsai ); Tōkyō: Sanseidō Company, Ltd.; 1940.  199 pp.  Two color and 121 b&w photos.  First 74 pages are text. The first English language book on the subject.

JA        Ōi, Raisei   Kofu zue ; Hosokawa-ryu Bonsekikei Iemoto Jimusho; 1929.    New 12/29/07

JA        Ōi, Raisei   Meishō zue ; Hosokawa-ryu Bonsekikei Iemoto Jimusho; 1929.    New 12/29/07

JA        Sakuma,  Yosaburo   Katei Engei Kwaki to Bonsai (Floriculture and dwarf plants for the home) ; Tokyo : Okura-Shoten; 1905.  228 pp.      New 01/07/06  

JA        Shikun'en Shujin   Bonsai ryūkōshi: tsuketari kakushu baiyō hanshokuhō ; Tōkyō: Ritsumeikan Shuppanbu; 1934.  243 pp.   Illustrations.      New 01/07/06

JA        Shimizu, Kitsusue  Bonsai Teien Take Sasa Baiyo Oyobi Teireho (How to Raise Garden Bamboo as Bonsai, Culture and Techniques) ; Daigakukan; 1913.

JA        Shinohara, Hakutei   Bonkei ; 1935.  LCC #77803275. 172 pp.  Illustrations .  

JA        Shuin, Kanai  Bonsai ; Tōkyō: Kosei-do Shoten; 1922. 

JA        Shujin, Kōjuen and Shunmu Ebara   Meika aizō bonsai kiseki ippinshu ; Kōjuen; 1903.    New 12/29/07

JA        Sugimasa, Shōun   Bonkei hiketsu zugai Bonkei Kyōkai ; 1928.    New 12/29/07

JA        Sumida, Masao  Bonsaido (The Way of Bonsai) ; Hakubunkan; 1931.

JA        Tomimasu, Ryoichi and Keisaku Suzuki and Takamasa Tanaka   Jitsuyo Engei Zensyo: Sosai, Kaju, Kaben, Bonsai (A Complete Book on the Contemporary Garden Arts: Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers, and Bonsai) ; Jugyo No Nihon Sha; 1911. 

ZH       Ts'ui, Yü-wên   Chung-kuo P'ên ching chi ch'i tsai p'ei ; 1948.  LCC #67002590.  169 pp.  Illustrations. 

JA       Ushimaro, Sawada    Bonsai Geijyutsu (The Fine Art of Bonsai) ; 1934.

JA       Yoshimura, Iwao  Shumi no bonsai shitatekata ; Tōkyō: Meibundo; 1933.  1935 printing LCC #86211694.  258 pp.  Illustrations.

1     Per the Library of Congress Online Catalog, http://catalog.loc.gov/.  Resulted from keyword search for "bonkei." 

3    Nippon Bonsai Association, Classic Bonsai of Japan (Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International; 1989), pg. 154 has b&w spread of 4 pairs of facing pages; Ishiyama, Nonkey T. "Historical Notes on Japanese Bonsai," Bonsai Journal, ABS, Vol. 5, No. 3, Fall 1971, pp. 43 -44 has b&w [shown above] on former page captioned "A nineteenth-century [sic] arrangement of bonsai and ikebana from an old illustration.  Courtesy of N.T. Ishiyama."  It is RJB's belief that because of similarities with the illustrations in Classic, Nonkey's is actually from that 1903 work also; Elias, Dr. Thomas S. "New Library Additions," NBF Bulletin, Vol. XI, No. 2, Winter 2000, pg. 4.  Per the National Agriculture Library AGRICOLA Database, www.agricola.nal.usda.gov, Call Number:  SB433.5.K57 1903 DNAr.   Added to 01/07/06