Hoozue: Indigenous Japanese Technique for Preservation of the Legacy Katsura Tree at Dumbarton Oaks

Article by Ron Henderson (LIRIO) and Jonathan Kavalier (Director of Gardens at Dumbarton Oaks)

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Such preservation work offers a model for the study of emerging branches of arboricultural research, indigenous cultural practices, plant humanities, and other scholarly areas. The Dumbarton Oaks katsura preservation project, and the other allied preservation projects, are successive efforts for both scholarly research and public enjoyment. Given the Japanese examples of 1,500-year-old trees—such as Usuzumi-zakura, Miharu Takizakura, and Yamataka Jindai-zakura—the garden team expects to inspire a centuries-long preservation of irreplaceable living monuments with indigenous horticultural practices as well as cultivate global exchange in the preservation of legacy trees.

Landscape Architecture Frontiers. 2024. Vol. 12. Issue (3): 98 -101. DOI: 10.15302/J-LAF-1-050060