1.  Personal e-mail to RJB from Tomas Melo of Slovakia, April 17, 2001.  A Chinese portrayal actually?

2.  Personal e-mail to RJB from Tomas Melo, October 3, 2001.  From  The art of chinese gardening by Zdenek Hrdlicka. 

3.  Personal e-mail to RJB from Tomas Melo, March 27, 2001.  Pictures "found in library." 

4.   Personal e-mail to RJB from Tomas Melo, April 27, 2001.  Pictures from Bonsai Slovakia 2001. 

5.  Cover of American Bonsai Society Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 1968.  Smaller copy on pg. 3 for article "Japanese Bonsai - 1912" by Marcus B. Huish, LL.B.  Our researches have not yet found who or what exactly Banreki was in this context.  Per http://www.library.tohoku.ac.jp/kichosho/kicho/rekisi/reki6s-e.html, the Banreki/Wanli period were the years 1573-1620.

6.  Personal e-mail to RJB from Chris Cochrane, December 23, 1999.  With the bamboo-decorated screen behind, this is an interesting depiction of the "three friends of winter."

7.   Personal e-mail to RJB from Tomas Melo, May 17, 2001.  From a Czech bonsai magazine.

8.    From www.uk.garden.com     RJB has seen this picture elsewhere also.

9.     From Riley, Scott Lynn "Tree Story," Wingspan, All Nippon Airways Inflight Magazine, November 1996, pp. 28, 29.  From Takagi Museum collection.

10.     Prescott, David and Colin Lewis   The Bonsai Handbook (New York: Sterling Publishing; 2001), pg. 4.

11.   From 'The history of bonsai," http://www.my-bonsai.com/en/history.html.  "Japanese print: The sape [sic] of the white pine bonsai and the decoration on the pot indicate the strong chinese influence in japanese culture of this period."

12.      From The Complete Practical Encyclopedia of Bonsai by Ken Norman (London: Hermes House, an imprint of Anness Publishing Ltd.; 2005, 2006)  Left image from pg. 13 captioned "Late 19th-century Japanese woodblock print of a Chrysanthemum bonsai in the cascade style."  Right image from pg. 10 captioned "Late 19th-century Japanese woodblock print of a Chrysanthemum bonsai in the twin-trunk style."  B&w version of left image also found in Bonsai, BCI, Vol. XIX, No. 5, June 1980, pg. 165, with caption "Another of the wood block prints from the collection of Lee Roberts, artist and jewelry designer."

13.    From http://www.bonsaimuseum.org/e/tenji_t.html, accessed 08/26/2004, with the labels "t011210_2.jpg" and "t011210_5.jpg", respectively.  The latter tryptych is another of the Hachi No Ki portrayals.

14.    Lesniewicz, Paul  Indoor Bonsai (Cassell Illustrated, division of Octopus Publishing Group Limited, London; 1985. 2003 Reprinting.), pg. 7 with caption "Japanese woodcut: a bonsai grower offering some of his specimens for sale."

15.    From Alan Walker, as posted on IBC in reply #4 - 9 http://internetbonsaiclub.org/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=133&topic=21016.0".  Images were photographed at David Fukumoto's place in Hawai'i.  This collection of bonsai-related ukiyo-e was up on the wall behind the counter in his shop, framed behind glass and hanging on a wall some distance away.  They had been the collection of the late Dr. Horace Clark.

16.    "Japanese Girls with Bonsai" at http://www.allposters.com/-sp/-Posters_i883252_.htm.  Probably from the late 1800s.