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EDITORIAL Bonsai Focus 3 Who we are Publisher Bonsai Europe Publications Houtrustweg 96, 2566 GJ The Hague The Netherlands Europe: Tel.: [phone] Office hours: 9am - 5pm (CET) USA: Tel.:[phone] Office hours: 9am - 5pm (East Coast) E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.bonsaifocus.com Chief Editor: Farrand Bloch [email protected] Editorial staff: Can’t get enough of it I was already working on this issue when also to Shinji Suzuki's garden in Obuse. proof copies of the previous one arrived. This is one of the best bonsai collections It was the special edition with the two in Japan. Included, of course, is Kunio Japanese girls on the cover and it carried Kobayashi's garden so it is an extensive all the memories of that great event in it. visit to the Omiya bonsai gardens and And now I was so excited to see it all in its museum — all part of this tour. Extra print. The responses to that issue were special is a visit to the temples of Nikko, overwhelming, which strengthened our I was there myself couple of years ago. The main temple is situated confidence that we had made the right decision to add on a hill planted with more in those extra pages to than a thousand Hinoki cover the World Bonsai cypresses, coming from Convention. Tokyo it was like entering a I took a huge number different world, something of photos during that truly magical. So, look for event, so I can treat you, the details further on in French edition: Patrick Bosc, Mat- dear reader, to some more this magazine, or go to: thieu Mavridis amazing bonsai from the www.bonsaifocus.com German edition: Jörg Derlien WBC exhibition in Japan. >Kokufu. English edition: Ann Scutcher Dutch edition: Hein-Dik Barentsen Italian edition: Erika Lakin Spanish edition: Ana Ricart Heike van Gunst, one of the Focus Japan Tour, gives an Advertising & Marketing: René Rooswinkel [email protected] Subscriptions & Administration: Marja Heijmink [email protected] Issn UK: 1874 - 6853 Issn US: 1876 - 6137 Price: € 12.95 © Copyright 2017 Bonsai Europe, world rights reserved. No part of this publication may be repro- Back to what we are about, a participants of the Bonsai account of magazine, again presenting some great her first time visit to Japan. treats in this issue. A large forest planting Another first is that we have organized by Pieter van Uden, a local bonsai artist a new tour to the famous Kokufu-ten who has done very extravagant work for exhibition in February 2018. It is with the us in the past. See how he makes a huge same charming guide, Seiko Fukui, who forest with home grown hornbeam on a received many rave comments from the large granite plate. Matt Reel and Tyler participants of the previous tour. Sherrod have teamed up to work on a The tour to the Kokufu-Ten exhibition is, bulky mugo pine. While, Morten Albek again, promising to be a special trip, as contemplates on the shohin displays we have not only planned a visit to both of this year’s Nöelanders Trophy show, Kokufu-ten shows, which will show two which, as always, came up trumps with completely different sets of bonsai, but its excellent shohin. duced in any form without the written permission of the publisher. Bonsai Focus has a co-operation with Kinbon magazine, Kyoto, Japan Translations: Peter Warren Farrand Bloch Chief editor