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Top left; Keiichi Fujikawa is the
second generation owner of Mark and Ritta Bring
Fujikawa Kouka-en and is one
of the most respected bonsai
nurserymen in the Kansai area Kokonoe Home
of Japan.
Top right; A view of Taisho-en,
November 2012, where Mark
and Ritta met Maarten van der Importing bonsai trees from
Hoeven, the owner of Bonsai
Plaza in Delft, Netherlands.
Bottom left; Kokonoe and Ritta,
November 2012, Kouka-en. Japan to Europe
The first time Mark and Ritta
saw their tree.

By Kath Hughes, UK. Photos courtesy Mark and Ritta Cooper, UK

t was in November 2012 that Mark and Ritta privately visited Fujikawa Kouka-en Bonsai Nursery for the
first time. Keiichi Fujikawa is the second generation owner of Fujikawa Kouka-en and is one of the most
respected bonsai nurserymen in the Kansai area of Japan. Fujikawa’s nursery is located not far from the
town of Ikeda, which is north of Osaka, and is usually home to several foreign students of bonsai. Keiichi
IFujikawa’s reputation was already well known to Mark and Ritta, and they had admired his trees for many
years prior to their first visit to Kouka-en. They had always been impressed by how well his trees were presented
for sale in the sales area of Taikan-ten, a show held in Kyoto annually, which they had visited many times before.

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