Dwarf Tree Observations in Travellers' Writings
in East Asia


Sticks and Stones, a summary of what bonsai have been called
 

NOT in Marco Polo (1254-1324)


Portuguese missionary letter (1598, from 1582)
Portuguese/Japanese dictionary (1603) Fr. Pedro Chirino, S.J. (fl. 1604)
Peter Mundy (fl. 1600-1667) George Meister (1653-1713)  О []
Englebert Kaempfer (1651-1716)  О Fr. Pierre Martial Cibot (1727-1780)
Lord Macartney (1737-1806)  О Henri Leonard Jean Baptiste Bertin (1719 or 1720-1792)
Dr. Clarke Abel (1780-1826) John Livingstone (c.1770-1838?)
Izaak Titsingh (1744-1812) James Main (fl. 1794)
Germain Felix Meylan (1785-1831) George Bennett (1804-1893)  О
John Francis Davis (1795-1890)  О Nathan Dunn (1782-1844)  О
Philipp Von Siebold (1796-1866)  О Robert Fortune (1812-1880)  О
Henry Charles Sirr (1807-1872) Osmond Tiffany (1823-1895)
Com. Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858)   [] Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888)  О
Francis Hall (1822-1902)  О Pierre Joseph Rossier (1829-bef.1898)   []
J.M.W. Silver (fl. 1867) John Thomson (1837-1921)   []
Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff (1825-1882) William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928)   О []
Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904)  О Johann Justus Rein (1835-1918)
Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925)  О [] Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1856-1928)   О []
Emily S. Patton (fl. 1896)   [] Francis E. Clark (1851-1927)   О
Mary E. Unger (fl. 1901)   [] Pierre Loti (1850-1923)
Walter Del Mar (1862-1944) Katharine Schuyler Baxter (fl. 1895-1904)   []
Anna C. Hartshorne (1860-1957) Reginald J. Farrer (1880-1920)  О
Marie Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958)   О John Finnemore (fl. 1911)
Marcus B. Huish, LL.B.  (1845-1921) Richard Gordon Smith (1858-1918)
Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham (1842-1914) Florence Du Cane (fl. 1908-1913)
Isabel Anderson (1877-1948) О Alfred Marshall Hitchcock (1868-1941)
Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846-1925) J. W. (John William) Robertson Scott (1866-1962)
Dorothy Graham (fl. 1938) Samuel Newsom (fl. 1939)

  [] = includes illustration(s)        О = includes author portrait

See also Pre-1945 English Article Bibliography


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