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An informal upright Trident Maple (Acer buergerianum), in training since 1856, seems much older
than it really is thanks to its strongly tapered trunk and wide-spreading surface roots.

SPOTLIGHT ON Yuji Yoshimura

While the Bicentennial Gift from Japan provided the impetus toward
the establishment of the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum, the trees
in that collection were not the first bonsai to arrive at the U.S. National
Arboretum. Dr. Creech met and befriended Yuji Yoshimura during his
plant explorations in Japan and was instrumental in encouraging
Yoshimura’s immigration to the United States for a fellowship at the

Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1958, where he cared for their bonsai
collection.
Dr. Creech invited Yoshimura to Washington in 1973 to encourage
local enthusiasm for bonsai. At a meeting of the Potomac Bonsai
Association, Yoshimura stunned the audience with his drastic pruning
of a Kingsville Dwarf Boxwood (Buxus microphylla ‘Compacta’). One
attendee expressed her shock at the skeletal form, saying, “Oh dear.

He’s killing the plant!” Today, more than forty years later, museum