FUDO is the name given to a juniper bonsai recovered as Tahei in 1910 by Suzuki, an "apparently" famous collector yamadoris turn of the century in Japan, in fact 1929 is the date in which he made his first appearance in an exhibition of bonsai. It was felt when it was recovered it had between 600 and 1000 years and was wired for the first time by another famous master: Kinsaku Saida. Never in those 19 years had shown because its owner was a Japanese oil tycoon was really worried about the possibility of carrying out a statement could harm the tree. For this reason the owner remodel a special area in your home to this tree and never heard from him, so much so that those who saw the exhibition won him baptized as "Phantom Simpaku (Junipero ghost .)
In 1946, after having survived the war, the tree was purchased by Yoshimatsu Hattori FUDO who named it, which is the name of a guardian of Buddha that protects you from demons with a flame and was the resemblance of this tree to a calls which led him to baptize as well. Yoshimatsu died in 1960 and his collection of bonsai was sold, but Fudo, who was saved by his son. Since her son was not an expert in bonsai, after some years finally sold it to Kyuzo Murata, one of the fathers of modern bonsai in Japan.
And so the tree that many people had only seen in pictures came to be exposed and seen by all.
In 1969 George S. Avery, director of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden was the tree on a visit to Japan and in his own words: "A few days after the visit I decided that trees had to be at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden."
And through a Japanese friend made an offer to Murata by the tree. Although in principle Muirata rejected the idea of \u200b\u200bselling it, after a year of exchanging letters finally agreed to sell. In the letter he wrote to accept the purchase said: Personally, I want to keep this tree in my private collection in my lifetime, but while we're in this business, would be willing to sell only if they meet the necessary living conditions for the tree. Recently, air pollution in Japan is becoming unbearable for humans and especially for trees in the garden. The pollution is caused mainly by automobiles. I'm not against progress, but the trees do not. They can only suffer and die in silence at some point. I have said that the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is large enough that no problems of contamination within the premises and there is no place in the United States and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where all necessary facilities are available for care appropriate. Above all, it is very important for Americans, most of which are still relatively alien to our works of art of bonsai will have the opportunity to appreciate the árbol.En his memoirs wrote: "These were some of my many reasons , and finally everybody understood. I told my friends I would not sell for a million dollars, if the Brooklyn Botanic Garden was a commercial nursery, but he knew that the BBG staff would love and care to my tree, not only professionally, but heart.
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Finally the tree was collected in the United States by the director of the BBG and representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and after passing quarantine, was taken to the botanic garden in October 1971, less than a year after his arrival the Brooklyn Botanic Garden announced who had died without even FUDO Siqueros have acclimated to their new location. Day 7 of this month there was a "memorial" for the tree in the BBC.
