Naoko Abe - 19 Mar

Unless otherwise mentioned, all images are reproduced by kind permission of Ernest and Veryan Pollard

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Collingwood Ingrams signed initials, from Ornamental Cherries, 1948

Naoko Abe and her parents, 2016 (Courtesy of the author)

Illustration from Ingrams notebooks, 1915

Mary Ingram and some of her Japanese Chin dogs, 19031904

Ingrams first known sketch, 1892

Ingram dressed for a hunt, 18961897

An American Black Ship, Nagasaki Prefecture, woodblock print, c. 1854 (Photo Glenn Asakawa / the Denver Post via Getty Images)

Self-portrait, Ingram, 1899

Florence Ingram, c. 19171918

The Hokusai in bloom at The Grange, c. 1923

Illustration from Ingrams notebooks, described as Prunus litigiosa, 1940

Dejima Island, Japan, illustration from the Illustrated London News, vol. XLIII, 1863 (Photo DEA / BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA / Contributor via Getty Images)

Philipp von Siebold, Kanen Iwasaki, 1826 (Courtesy of the National Diet Library, Japan)

Ingrams plan of the cherry planting at The Grange, c. 1922

Fuji from Goten-yama, on the Tkaid Highway, Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830 (Photo Buyenlarge / Getty Images)

Illustration from Ingrams notebooks, 19411943

Ingrams correspondence with the Yokohama Nursery, 1926

Ingram in Japan with man believed to be Takata, tree described as Prunus incisa, 1926

Seisaku Funatsu photographed by Ingram, 1926

Hanami celebrations along the Arakawa River, photographed in the 1920s by the Funatsu family (Courtesy of Keiichi Higuchi)

Koganei Avenue photographed by Ingram, 1926

The Cherry Associations Cherry Dance Party, 1919 (Courtesy of the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo)

Illustration from Ingrams notebooks, described as Prunus incisa, 1923

Temon Sano, 2014 (Courtesy of the author)

Taihaku: a page from Ingrams notebooks, c. 1927

Cherry trees in blossom at The Grange, c. 1930s

Self-portrait, Ingram, c. 1930s

Illustration from Ingrams notebooks, described as Prunus pilosiuscula media, 1925

A kamikaze plane with cherry insignia, Yasukuni Shrine, 2017 (Courtesy of the author)

The Nadeshiko girls wave farewell to kamikaze pilot Captain Toshio Anazawa, 1945 (Courtesy of the Mainichi Newspapers)

Ryji Uehara at a military base in Saga Prefecture, 1944 (Courtesy of Azumino city library)

Illustration from Ingrams notebooks, described as Prunus prostrata, 1944

Alastair and Daphnes wedding day, 1947

Illustration from Ingrams notebooks, described as Prunus subhirtella, 1923

Ingrams frontispiece, from In Search of Birds, 1966

Collingwood Ingram and Roland Jefferson at The Grange, 1978 (Courtesy of the Khoku History Association)

Masatoshi Asari, 2018 (Courtesy of the author)

Illustration from Ingrams notebooks, described as Prunus incisa, 1923

The 1,500 year old Usuzumi-zakura in Neodani, Motosu city, 2018 (Courtesy of Takeshi hira)

Cherry trees in bloom in Washington D.C. (Photo Getty Images / Robert Dodge)

Taihaku, painted by Collingwood Ingram, undated (Courtesy of Tessa Pollard)

Taihaku at The Grange, 2015 (Courtesy of the author)

Somei-yoshino in Mie Prefecture, Japan, 2015 (Courtesy of Hiromichi Kurata)

Somei-yoshino in Sakura Zuhu by Manabu Miyoshi, 1921 (Photo The Trustees of the British Museum)

Yamazakura in Mie Prefecture, Japan, 2018 (Courtesy of Hiromichi Kurata)

Yamazakura sketched in Ingrams notebooks, described as Prunus s. mutabilis, 1939

Kanhi-zakura, described as Prunus campanulata, 1941, and a Sargent cherry leaf, 1939, from Ingrams notebooks

Sargent cherry (yama-zakura) in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, 2013 (Courtesy of Hiromichi Kurata)

All photos by Collingwood Ingram from his 1926 trip to Japan

A temple courtyard in Kyoto, tree described as Prunus subhirtella Autumnalis

Yoshino cherry in Uji, thought to be Somei-yoshino

At a temple gate in Ishiyama, Shiga Prefecture. The tree is described as Prunus mum (plum tree)

Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto

Fugenz at Nikko

An encounter in Ishiyama, Shiga Prefecture

Weeping cherry tree at Daigoji temple in Kyoto

In the Yoshino mountains

Yokohama Nursery Catalogue from 192627 (Photo The Yokohama Nursery Co. Ltd. / RHS Lindley Collections)

Umineko, London, 2015 (Courtesy of the author)

Kursar in Chris Lanes nursery, 2015 (Courtesy of the author)

Kanzan in Sakura Zuhu by Manabu Miyoshi, 1921 (Photo The Trustees of the British Museum)

The Grange, 2015 (Courtesy of the author)

Ingram aged 99 at The Grange, 1980

Taihaku at The Alnwick Garden, 2016 (Courtesy of Margaret Whittaker)

Matsumae varieties in a private nursery at Windsor Great Park, 2015 (Courtesy of the author)