The pride of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, is a 1000 year old weeping cherry tree. Its bloom this spring was a lesson in endurance, documented on film. Our friend Masashi Yamaguchi writes: A former student of my father’s old school(high school) joined a project to shoot a movie on Miharu Takizakura in Fukushima. She asked my […]
Masashi Yamaguchi returns to report on how the dogwood tree has brought Transpacific gratitude and sympathy. Thank you, Masashi! Several years ago, in an article on Japanese cherry blossom trees for Human Flower Project. I wrote that the Japanese government had utilized these trees for promoting international friendship. In 1912, the governor of Tokyo sent […]
Many thanks to our friend Masashi Yamaguchi for another fascinating article, this one about the decorative plants and flowers on Japanese kimonos. Please visit Masashi’s Plants & Japan, a botanical and cultural feast. Recently, a foreign friend asked me to research kimono, the Japanese traditional costume. It was then I noticed in my house several […]