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'Cherry' Ingram - The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms (Hardcover)
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'Cherry' Ingram - The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms (Hardcover)
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'Sympathetic and engrossing... a portrait of great charm and
sophistication' Guardian The irresistible story of Japanese cherry
blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown
Englishman Collingwood Ingram, known as 'Cherry' for his defining
obsession, was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred,
witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change. After visiting
Japan in 1902 and 1907 and discovering two magnificent cherry trees
in the garden of his family home in Kent in 1919, Ingram fell in
love with cherry blossoms, or sakura, and dedicated much of his
life to their cultivation and preservation. On a 1926 trip to Japan
to search for new specimens, Ingram was shocked to see the loss of
local cherry diversity, driven by modernisation, neglect and a
dangerous and creeping ideology. A cloned cherry, the
Somei-yoshino, was taking over the landscape and becoming the
symbol of Japan's expansionist ambitions. The most striking absence
from the Japanese cherry scene, for Ingram, was that of Taihaku, a
brilliant 'great white' cherry tree. A proud example of this tree
grew in his English garden and he swore to return it to its native
home. Multiple attempts to send Taihaku scions back to Japan ended
in failure, but Ingram persisted. Over decades, Ingram became one
of the world's leading cherry experts and shared the joy of sakura
both nationally and internationally. Every spring we enjoy his
legacy. 'Cherry' Ingram is a portrait of this little-known
Englishman, a story of Britain and Japan in the twentieth century
and an exploration of the delicate blossoms whose beauty is admired
around the world.
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