July 1-5,
San Rafael, California
Marin Bonsai Club Show:
Bonsai show at the Veteran's Memorial Auditorium, Marin
County Fairgrounds. Highway 101 (exit N. San Pedro Rd.) Hours are from 11AM-10PM
daily. Admission to Fair is $14 for adults, $12 for senior and children 4 to 12.
For information, call Craig Thompson, 415-472-6685.
Aug 29-30, Santa Rosa,
California
Redwood Empire Bonsai
Society:
26th Annual Bonsai Show at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building, 1351 Maple
Ave. Hours are Saturday, 10AM-5PM and Sunday, 10AM-4PM. Demonstration at 1:30PM,
both days. Saturday features, from Japan Bonsai Master Yasuo Mitsuya. Sunday
features Bonsai Master Kathy Shaner. Over 200 trees exhibited, along with a
large vendor room, members’ consignment sales, raffles, door prizes, benefit
drawings and ongoing club member demonstrations. For more information call Bob
Shimon 707-884-4126 or email
shimon@mcn.org.
Web page:
www.rebsbonsai.org/index.html.
An Invitation to All
Who Worked with Tosh Saburomaru.
An Evening of Retrospective/Factoids
Retrospective Event
Kusamura Bonsai Club
wishes to celebrate a great member of our club. This event will commence a
celebration of our 50th
Anniversary. We want to invite members of other clubs around the bay area and
well as our members with trees who have been grown in Tosh’s nursery, styled by
Tosh, or once owned by him to an evening of storytelling,
picture sharing, and reunion.
Program will include:
Photos,
slide
show, trees, remarks, trees from
BGLM and members
of various clubs. It would be nice to hear of the styling techniques he help set
forth.
If members
have any photos, please bring to meeting.
Factoids:
Awarded “Circle of Sensei Award” by
the GSBF Convention in 2002.
"Chatting
with the Master: Tosh Saburomaru on Black Pines",
Florida Bonsai, VI, 3:5-7.
Midori Club History:
“Another member of Kusamura was Toshio Saburomaru. Toshio acted as an advisor
and a sponsor to the Midori club and attended at times as a teacher.
From:
“Yuji
Yoshimura – The Father of Popular Bonsai in the Non-Oriental World”:
About the time Yoshimura began visiting the greater San Francisco area, Toshio
Saburomaru and several friends took the series of lessons from this newcomer
from Japan. Other students were attracted also. Demonstrating an innate
expertise on the subject, Tosh began organizing regular classes at his Menlo
Park nursery using the new techniques from Japan, and these led to more
extensive workshops, demonstrations and soon a number of clubs in the Bay area.
“(Tosh
Saburomaru served as educational advisor to Lane Books Co. on the
Sunset Bonsai
illustrated paperback. The book's first printing in March 1965 of 17,500 copies
sold out in a month, and six thousand more copies sold in the next few months,
the most successful of the magazine's eighteen low-priced gardening books. The
tenth printing was made in April 1970). “
(In April 1996,
Toshio Saburomaru passed away.)
Official Notice:
April 16, 1996 -- Bonsai artist, teacher,
and landscape gardener Toshio Saburomaru died at age 78 near his home in
Mountain View, California. In 1955 he had helped organize the Kusamura Bonsai
Association at his Menlo Park nursery. Working with others who studied under
Yuji Yoshimura when that new-to-the-West teacher visited the Bay area, "Tosh"
helped form an association of six area clubs whose first newsletter was issued
in November 1962. "Bonsai Clubs Association Newsletter" would be renamed Bonsai
Clubs International's
Bonsai
Magazine within six years and Tosh always gave that organization and publication
his full support. For many years his "Seasonal Reminders" was a regular
feature. Tosh taught and demonstrated at numerous conventions throughout the
U.S, and was the first American bonsai artist to teach in Latin America when he
was invited to Venezuela in 1979. Beginning about 1973 he also began hosting a
regular series of tours to Japan, again exposing his students to the latest in
the art of bonsai.
("Tribute
To A Pioneer In American Bonsai"
by Randy Clark,
Bonsai,
BCI, May/June 1996, pp. 22-24) SEE ALSO: Jan 12, Jan 30, Feb 27, Feb 28, Oct
22, Dec 24
Trees
at the
BGLM are:
#213 Mugho Pine,
#132 Coast live oak, #133 Cork oak