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:

Dr. David Andrews Marybel Balendonck Jack E. Billet
John Catlin (b. early 1930s, Springfield, IL) Peter Chan Chiu-Chian Chiang
Doi Kunitoshi Gordon Duffet Maria Elena de Duran
Mankichi Fujisaki (1875-1959) George Fukuma (1902-1974) Gianfranco Giorgi (Italy)
Norman Haddrick (Canada) Jozan Hirota (b. 1896?, Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture) Keiseki Hirotsu (1903, Komatsu, Japan - 1987(?) California)
Lee Holdokowski (b. c.1890) Yunhua Hu (b. 1943) Isozaki Tanekichi
Ito Hideo Ito Seizan Kamiya Chiyoji of Senju-en
Tei'ichi Katayama (b. 1908) Kawabe Tetsunoke Kawakami Yoshi
Shichinosuke Kawasumi (a.k.a. Masakuni I, 1880-1950) John Kiktavi (fl. 1949) Nobuichi Koide (d. 1987)
Kong Taichu [K'ung T'ai-ch'u] Masumitsu Kubota Muriel Leeds
Lu Xueming Nick Lenz (b. 1940) Colin S. Lewis (b. 1946)
Yasuo Mitsuya Su Ren (aka Su Jen or So-yan), Buddhist monk from the Haichuang Monastery Pius Notter (Switzerland)
Shinobu Nozaki (1895-1968) Ogata Kyusuke of Rai-en (pre-WWII) Richard K. Ota (b. 1926, Sacramento, CA)
Charlie & Cheryl Owens Rémy Samson (France) Ritaro Shimizu
Suzuki Taihei (b.1863 or 1865, Ehime prefecture) Suzuki Toshinori Tanaka Hirobumi (pre-WWII)
Harry Tomlinson Keiko Yamane Tak Yamaura (b. 1944, Nagasaki)

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

European Bonsai Association (1980)
European Suiseki Association (May 1992) Federation of British Bonsai Societies (1981)
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)
Swiss Bonsai Club Toronto Bonsai Society (1963)
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
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

Dawes Arboretum (1960)
Longwood Gardens, PA (1959)
Montreal Botanical Garden

Official opening dates for these establishments:

Dallas Bonsai Garden (1965)


as of February 24, 2013

Month
Eventful Days
% of Month
# of Events
January
20
64.5
41
February
17
58.6
31
March
23
74.2
46
April
22
73.3
47
May
21
67.7
50
June
15
50.0
25
July
21
67.7
36
August
16
51.6
28
September
20
66.7
41
October
22
71.0
41
November
18
60.0
41
December
17
54.8
29
TOTALS
232
63.4
456


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