The Peace Tree from Hiroshima: A Little Bonsai with a Big Story
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- Synopsis
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This true children's story is told by a little bonsai tree, called Miyajima, that lived with the same family in the Japanese city of Hiroshima for more than 300 years before being donated to the National Arboretum in Washington DC in 1976 as a gesture of friendship between America and Japan to celebrate the American Bicentennial.
"In 1625, when Japan was a land of samurai and castles, I was a tiny pine seedling. A man called Itaro Yamaki picked me from the forest where I grew and took me home with him. For more than three hundred years, generations of the Yamaki family trimmed and pruned me into a beautiful bonsai tree. In 1945, our household survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In 1976, I was donated to the National Arboretum in Washington D. C. , where I still live today--the oldest and perhaps the wisest tree in the bonsai museum. "
- Copyright:
- 2014
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 32 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781462917235
- Related ISBNs:
- 9784805313473
- Publisher:
- Tuttle Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 09/18/15
- Copyrighted By:
- Tuttle Publishing
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
- Grade Levels:
- Second grade, Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.