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The National Bonsai & Penjing

Museum Honorees

Since its opening in 1976, the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum has
attracted interest and support from bonsai enthusiasts and practitioners
as well as from the general public. Some of its most significant
supporters are remembered by specific museum spaces. The North

American Pavilion is dedicated to John Y. Naka, the Tropical
Conservatory to Haruo “Papa” Kaneshiro, the Chinese Pavilion to Dr.
Yee-Sun Wu and the Educational Center to Yuji Yoshimura. The Kato
Family Stroll Garden recognizes Saburo Kato’s profound contributions,
while the garden of North American native plants at the museum’s exit

honors George Yamaguchi.
Other features recall important museum benefactors. Maria Rivera
Vanzant, who with her husband Howard was an ardent bonsai
enthusiast, is remembered in the Upper Courtyard. The H. William Merritt
Gate honors a volunteer and National Bonsai Foundation member who
built the tokonoma display area himself. The Exhibit Gallery is dedicated
to Mary E. Mrose, a mineralogist, crystallographer and bonsai aficionado

who believed that bonsai, penjing and viewing stones deserve serious
study. The Melba Tucker Arbor honors the author of Suiseki & Viewing
Stones, an American Perspective for her exemplary service to bonsai
and its related art forms in California and beyond. The Rose Family
Garden, encircling the Lower Courtyard, recognizes the significant
contributions of Deborah Rose, especially in support of the Japanese

Pavilion renovation. Barbara Hall Marshall has supported the National
Bonsai & Penjing Museum and the National Bonsai Foundation in
innumerable ways and is the major benefactor of the John Y. Naka
Pavilion. Another devoted patron is Marybel Balendonck, friend and
student of John Naka, who is the primary advocate for the museum on
the west coast.
The National Bonsai & Penjing Museum and the National Bonsai

Foundation thank all those whose commitment and contributions of every
kind make the museum and its collections such a unique and special
place in the nation’s capital and in the world.