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Golden State Bonsai Federation

GSBF, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c) (3) educational organization which provides services and activities promoting the wonderful art of bonsai. GSBF is made up of member clubs in California and affiliate clubs in the adjoining States.

Its Annual Convention gives “bonsai people” an opportunity to watch bonsai masters at work; to participate in hands-on instructor led workshops; to shop for plants, tools, pots, and other materials at the bazaar; compete in various contests, and to share in the friendly companionship of other bonsai enthusiasts.

Golden Statements Magazine, the official publication of GSBF, is printed six times each year with current bonsai articles and calendars of local club shows and events.

The Bonsai Shopper is online and made available every other year and gives the locations of bonsai nurseries, sales outlets, names of teachers and demonstrators, and other pertinent data.

The GSBF Clubs directory is online and provided to every member and affiliate club each spring and contains the names of all clubs, their contact persons, and the day, time, and location of club meetings in facilitating your visiting the many clubs.

Education is GSBF’s mission. As part of its educational efforts, the Federation awards grants to assist the clubs with programs and provides several categories of bonsai scholarships which are available to worthy individuals. There is also an internship program in which qualified students are given assistance to study with a bonsai master in Japan or elsewhere.

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Links:




http://www.gsbf-bonsai.org/


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The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum at the U.S. National Arboretum

The late bonsai master Masaru Yamaki, who in 1976 donated one of his most prized bonsai as part of Japan’s Bicentennial gift to the American people.

Picture:
Masaru Yamaki and Dr. John Creech, then Director of the U.S. National Arboretum, viewing the donated Miyajima white pine in its new home in the Japanese Pavillion at the Arboretum (now part of the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum) in 1976.

This Japanese white pine (Pinus parvifolia) is approximately 375 years old, and is the oldest specimen in the Japanese Bonsai Collection. 

 

Shows reporter from NHK TV (Nihon Hoso Kyokai or the Japanese Broadcasting Cooperation), which aired Bonsai That Survived The Atomic Bomb. The bonsai were exposed to radiation from the direction shown by the arrows.

This is a Japanese Black Pine that survived the bomb blast and it is in good shape.

Another Miyajima white pine in the Yamaki garden that was exposed to the atomic bomb blast.

The Yamaki family has continuously been engaged in horticulture and forestry since the Edo era [1603-1867]. Bonsai has been the family business. The family especially succeeded in creating improved Japanese black pines.

Masaru Yamaki's views on appreciating Bonsai 

Each bonsai has its special quality. Some express changes in the four seasons, while others express the elegance of nature in a pot.

Bonsai is not limited to expensive trees in a classic shape. Indeed, by using excessive wire or growing unnecessary branches in order to create a classic shape, the artist may fail to express the tree’s essential beauty.

Trees best expressing bonsai no kokoro (the spirit of bonsai) are often marked by unaffected simplicity. Even if the tree has a slender trunk, it can still touch one’s heart deeply, conveying with overflowing vitality the beauty of nature in fields and mountains.

The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum at the U.S. National Arboretum
 https://www.bonsai-nbf.org/


The Golden State Bonsai Federation (GSBF) at the Shinzen Friendship Garden in Woodward Park, Fresno.

 

Currently, the Golden State Bonsai Federation maintains a collection in northern California at Lake Merritt and one in southern California at the Huntington Gardens. The Clark Center’s 88 trees at a worth of $150,000 will become the foundation collection in the state of California for the continuation of the Clark Center collection in the Central Valley at Shinzen.

http://www.shinzenjapanesegarden.org/shinzen_bonsai.html


Toro-cho, Kita Ward, Saitama City, Saitama, 331-0804 Japan
The Omiya Bonsai Art Museum, Saitama 

http://www.bonsai-art-museum.jp/english/collections/list.php

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