Working with Black Pines
 

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 50^th 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