BONSAI  BOOK  OF  DAYS

What Happened On This Date in "Recent" Bonsai History?


The following just touches upon notable events in this field worldwide during the past hundred years plus.

Information included but not limited to: birth and/or death dates and places of various teachers and masters and other "shakers and movers," founding dates of clubs and organizations, opening dates of first conventions and permanent collections, dates of issue for sets of bonsai/penjing postage stamps, dates of first publication for what would become influential magazines and books.

In short and with all modesty, a repository for the highlights of our interest's recent history.
Of course, not all significant events can -- or should -- be traced to one particular day.
Our trees have their own daily, monthly and seasonal cycles and rhythms.
Equally so are the ebbs and flows of the ideas, events and dreams
of our propagation, design, display, organization, dissemination, and
other celebration of the trees' lives
and those of the humans connected with them.

This is being continually updated and each date can have more than one noteworthy listing.
If you have suggestions, changes or additions, please email  rjb@phoenixbonsai.com

Please note that at least one citation for each date is necessary for inclusion here.



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Birthdates and places (and, where applicable, death dates and places) for these masters, teachers, authors, and other persons, among others:

Peter D. Adams Lynn R. Perry Alstadt Dr. David Andrews
Marybel Balendonck Vaughn Banting (b. 1947)

Dan Barton Willi Benz (b. 1931, Heidelberg, Germany)
Jack E. Billet
John Catlin (b. early 1930s, Springfield, IL) Peter Chan Chiu-Chian Chiang
Dr. Horace Clay
Dr. John Creech Sam Doi
Earl Donovan Gordon Duffet Maria Elena de Duran
Mankichi Fujisaki (1875-1959) George Fukuma (1902-1974)
Gianfranco Giorgi
Norman Haddrick Boh Chit Hee Jozan Hirota (b. 1896?, Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture)
Keiseki Hirotsu (1903, Komatsu, Japan - 1987(?) California) Lee Holdokowski (b. c.1890) Yunhua Hu
Kihachiro Kamiya (d. Jan. 2004) Haruo "Papa" Kaneshiro (1907-1991) Robert Kataoka (1906 (1909?), Hiroshima - Feb. 1986, Denver, CO)
Tei'ichi Katayama (b. 1908) Shichinosuke Kawasumi (a.k.a. Masakuni I, 1880-1950) A.E. Kemmerling
John Kiktavi Kunio Kobayashi (b.April 1948) Nobuichi Koide (d. 1987)
Kong Taichu [K'ung T'ai-ch'u] Vita (b. 1909) and Dorothy Koreshoff Masumitsu Kubota
Muriel Leeds Paul Lesniewicz (b. 1941, Heidelberg) Lu Xueming
Becky Lucas (South Africa) Nick Lenz (b. 1940) Colin S. Lewis (b. 1946)
Arishige Matsuura (b. 1935, Tokyo) Yasuo Mitsuya Su Ren (aka Su Jen or So-yan), Buddhist monk from the Haichuang Monastery
Keiji Murata Kenji Murata (b. 1901) Frank Nagata (d. 1980)
Alice Mizunaga Naka Soboku Nishihara Pius Notter
Shinobu Nozaki (1895-1968)
Richard K. Ota Charlie & Cheryl Owens James B. Ransohoff, Jr.
Rémy Samson Harold Sasaki Ritaro Shimizu
Budi Sulistyo (b. 1952) Tahei Suzuki (1865-1863, both Ehime prefecture) Toshinori Suzuki
Toshinori Suzuki Chyokichi Takahashi Stephen and Peter Tim
Harry Tomlinson Keiko Yamane Tak Yamaura (b. 1944, Nagasaki)
Shin & Carl Young Zhu Zi'an

Official organization dates, places, first officers, first show, founding and current number of members of these organizations, among others:

Bonsai Club Brno (1981, Czech Republic) Bonsai-Club Deutchland
Bonsai Group of Japan Society of London (1961) Bonsai Society of Australia (Aug. 1965)
Bonsai Society of Greater New York (1963) Bonsai Society of South Africa
Toronto Bonsai Society (1963)
City of Pittsburgh, 16 week class (1954)
European Bonsai Association (1980) European Suiseki Association (May 1992)
Federation of British Bonsai Societies (1981) Fuji Bonsai Club
Hawaii Bonsai Association (1970) Honolulu Bonsai Kenkyu Club (1955)
Indian Bonsai Association (1972) Kusamura Bonsai Club (1960)
Nippon Suiseki Association (May 1961) Seinan Bonsai Club (1961, later Nampu Kai)
Swedish Bonsai Society (October 1986) Swiss Bonsai Club
Western Suburbs Bonsai Group West Los Angeles Bonsai Club (1939?)

First publication dates and places for these publications:

Bonsai Techniques (1973) by John Y. Naka
Bonsai -- Dwarf Potted Trees (October 1953, BBG)
The Bonsai Workshop (1994) by Herb L. Gustafson
Dwarf Trees (Bonsai) (1940) by Shinobu Nozaki
Bonsai: Its Art, Science, History, and Philosophy (1984) by Deborah R. Koreshoff
Man Lung Garden Artistic Pot Plants (July 1969) by Yee-Sun Wu
Bonsai Sekai (Bonsai World) (May 1970, monthly)
Kindai Bonsai (Contemporary Bonsai) (1977, monthly)
International Bonsai (Feb. 1979, quarterly)
Bonsai Today (May/June 1989, bimonthly)

First show date and place and background details for:

Frank Nagata Memorial Winter Silhouettes Show (1970?)
Asia Pacific Bonsai and Suiseki Exhibition
Ben Oki International Design Award (1991)

Official opening dates of the bonsai collections at these locations:

Arnold Arboretum Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
Crespi Bonsai Museum (1991) Dawes Arboretum (1960)
Longwood Gardens, PA (1959)
Montreal Botanical Garden

Official opening dates for these establishments:

Brussel's Bonsai Nursery (1974) Dallas Bonsai Garden (1965)


as of 04/02/2008

Month
Eventful Days
% of Month
# of Events
January
18
58.1
26
February
11
37.9
19
March
21
67.7
32
April
19
63.3
32
May
18
58.1
31
June
13
43.3
16
July
15
48.4
25
August
12
38.7
18
September
17
56.7
23
October
16
51.6
24
November
13
43.3
24
December
11
35.5
15
TOTALS
185
50.5
285


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