Koju-en Shohin Nursery, Kyoto Japan

[SLR5000]

A visit To Koju-en Shohin Nursery, which is located not far from Kyoto train station, is a must if you are staying in or near Kyoto.

Our bonsai tour made the visit to the nursery on 23rd November. Elenore and I were here in February 2015 and all these little trees were covered in snow then, so it was a great contrast to visit the nursery in the autumn to see them in their full colour.

The shohin nursery is owned by the Masumi family and only has shohin trees in the nursery. It is one of the most known shohin nurseries in Japan.

I was lucky enough to meet Mr Masumi and he showed me a number of old and new Japanese made pots that he was selling.

All the pots were shohin size and were good quality Japanese-made. We now have more luggage to bring home but, luckily, we bought our flight tickets at a very good price early this year and flew in premium economy class, which gave us an extra baggage allowance.

I must say Mr Masumi has a good sense of humour, and his son speaks good English, so there was no trouble with communication.

The coin that you see in some of the photos (to give perspective) is a 500 yen coin, around the size of a Australian 20 cent coin.

I hope you enjoy these photos.
Lance

[boom64]

WOW Lance can it get any better.........Thanks for the effort. John

[treeman]

Very nice. Please bring back the persimmon for me and whatever # 14 is!

[JaseH]

I'd never been much of a Shohin fan but I loved this nursery when I was there.

Did you pat his dog?