FEATURED EVENT
PRESERVING LEGACY (PART II) |
CHERRY BLOSSOM CONSERVATION WORKSHOP
Join us at the U.S. National Arboretum for an on-the-ground workshop on Japanese tree conservation practices. This event will be led by Master Gardener FUJIMOTO Kurato and assistant Hans Friedl. Participants will have the unique opportunity to engage with traditional tools and learn specialized techniques used to preserve legacy cherry blossom trees.
Following the workshop, guests will be guided to the Exhibits Gallery within the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum for a curated tour of Sakura Orihon: Diary of a Cherry Blossom Journey. This annual exhibition features works by landscape architect and Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission award-winning artist Ron Henderson.
Fujimoto and Henderson have long collaborated on legacy tree conservation projects using hoozue, an indigenous Japanese horticultural technique. Their work has received honor awards from the Providence Preservation Society and the American Society of Landscape Architects for conservation efforts at Roger Williams Park (Providence, RI), the U.S. National Arboretum (Washington, DC), and Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC).
Following the program, Henderson and Fujimoto will host a Q&A session on their work and joint conservation practices.
LECTURE INFO
Friday, March 21, 2025
1:00PM EDT
Located at the U.S. National Arboretum
2400 R St NE, Washington D.C.
Send any inquiries to
jicc@ws.mofa.go.jp
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Ron Henderson is a Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and the inaugural Director of Research for the Alphawood Arboretum at IIT. He is the founding principal of LIRIO Landscape Architecture, with projects in North America, Asia, and Europe. His notable works include the Gardens of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA), Newport Art Museum Campus (Newport, RI), Newport Spring Park (Newport, RI), Elizabethan Theater at Château d’Hardelot (Condette, France), and Memorial to the Abolition of the Slave Trade (Nantes, France).
Henderson is also the author of 30 Trees (Birkhäuser, 2023) and The Gardens of Suzhou (University of Pennsylvania Press).
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
FUJIMOTO Kurato is a master gardener based in Kanazawa (Ishikawa Prefecture) on the snowy west coast of Japan. He has 25 years of experience, including working under the master gardener Araya in Kanazawa for 6 years. He has been working on tree maintenance at Kenrokuen Garden, one of Japan's three great daimyo gardens, in Kanazawa for more 20 years. He also leads tree maintenance and gardening on various projects throughout Kanazawa. He is a master in yukitsuri 雪吊り (rope-tenting) and hōzue ほおづえ (brace/crutch) design and maintenance.
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