Near the Lakeside Garden Center
666 Bellevue Ave
Oakland, CA
Hours:
| Tuesday-Friday | 11am - 3pm |
| Saturday | 10am - 4pm |
| Sunday | 12 noon - 4pm |
In Honor of
Tosh Saburomaru
Kusamura Bonsai Club
Celebrating 50 Years of Bonsai
Photo appeared in "Tribute to a Pioneer in American Bonsai"
by Randy Clark, Bonsai, BCI, 1996.
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An ongoing display from July 21—August 16
Kusamura Bonsai Club and the BGLM are joined by other local club members to honor a founding Sensei of Kusamura. This event launches Kusamura's 50th Anniversary year and pays tribute to a man who helped make it grow and thrive.
"In Memory — April 16, 1996-Bonsai artist, teacher, and landscape gardener Toshio Saburomaru died at age 78. 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