CHERRY INGRAM

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Naoko Abe is a Japanese journalist and nonfiction writer. She was the first female political writer to cover the prime ministers office the foreign ministry and the defence ministry at Mainichi Shimbun one of Japans largest newspapers. Since moving to London with her British husband and their two boys in 2001 she has worked as a freelance writer and has published five books in Japanese. Her biography of Collingwood Ingram in Japanese won the prestigious Nihon Essayist Club Award in 2016. She has now written an adaptation of the book for Englishlanguage readers. She is a trained classical pianist and an advanced yoga practitioner.The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown EnglishmanCollingwood Ingram known as śCherry 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 Someiyoshino was taking over the landscape and becoming the symbol of Japans expansionist ambitions.The most striking absence from the Japanese cherry scene for Ingram was that of Taihaku a brilliant śgreat 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 worlds leading cherry experts and shared the joy of sakura both nationally and internationally. Every spring we enjoy his legacy. śCherry Ingram is a portrait of this littleknown 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.Sympathetic and engrossing... a portrait of great charm and sophistication rich in its natural and historical range guaranteeing that you wont look at cherry blossoms the same way again[A] deeply moving book beautifully written and a huge achievement in terms of researchSet against the narrative arc of Japanese history journalist Naoko Abes account of the man behind the preservation of her countrys national symbol is both sympathetic and compelling... On reading this book beautifully illustrated with atmospheric period shots and colour plates you may well determine as I have to visit Japan at cherry blossom time[A] lovely book Two tensions animate this book: the difficulty of sending fragile scions around the world and successfully grafting them: and the wrenching historical context It is h

Data Publikacji: 2019-03-21
Wymiary: 222 mm 153 mm 37 mm 558 gr