KYUKAEN is a bonsai nursery located in Bonsai-cho, Saitama-shi, Saitama, Japan. We deal in bonsai, plant pot, tools, fertilizer.
Here, we introduce our history and achievement.

• In 1929, Kyuzo Murata established Kyukaen. "Kyuka" is a pen name of Ike-Taiga(a Japanese painter of Edo period). It is in association with the fact that Ike-Taiga had dropped in at a house where Kyuzo Murata was born.
  
  
• Since 1931, Kyuzo Murata was a gardener to the Japanese Imperial Household collection of bonsai.
  
  
• Kyuzo Murata assisted Masakuni I (Shichinosuke Kawasumi, 1880-1950) in developing tools for bonsai.
  
  
• During the Pacific War, most of the bonsai nursery of Bonsai-cho gave up their business. Then, Tomekichi Kato (Manseien bonsai nursery) and Seian Shimizu (Seidaien bonsai nursery) recommended Kyuzo Murata for a head of a town-block association of Bonsai-cho to trust him the future of bonsai. (At that time, a head of a town-block association was not commandeered. Kyukaen is said to be the only bonsai nursery which carried on bonsai business during Pacific War.)
  
  
• Soon after the Pacific War, Kyuzo Murata tried to revive heavily damaged Japanese Imperial Household collection of bonsai.
  
  
• Kyuzo Murata was also in charge of bonsai of celebrities, like Japanese onetime prime minister Shigeru Yoshida and Imperial family Chichibuno-miya.

For the detailed information of Kyuzo Murata's history and achievement, please refer to the elaborate article by Mr. Robert J. Baran of Phoenix Bonsai Society.
http://www.magiminiland.org/KMurata.html