tant Chief of the Bureau of Entomology. In 1929, he relinquished his 

 quarantine responsibilities to serve as Chief of the Bureau of Entomology. 

 He published articles on insects and insect problems in many scientific 

 journals, and helped develop methods for their control. 

 He died in Washington, D.C. 



Baron Keishiro Matsui 

 (1868-1946) 



In 1909, Keishiro Matsui held the position of Charge d'Affaires for the 

 Japanese Embassy in the United States. He was the first Japanese official 

 to inform the State Department through correspondence that the City of 

 Tokyo had decided to offer as a gift to the people of the United States 

 2,000 young trees (cherry) grown in Japan. 



Baron Matsui was born in Osaka, Japan. He graduated from the Impe- 

 rial University in Tokyo in 1889. In addition to his position in the United 

 States, he was Counselor to the Paris Embassy in 1906 and became Vice 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs for Japan in 1913 before taking the position 

 of Japanese Foreign Minister in 1924. Later in his career, he was a repres- 

 entative on the Supreme Council of the League of Nations and an Ambas- 

 sador to Great Britain. In 1938, he was made a member of the prestigious 

 Japanese Privy Council. 



He died in Japan. 



Professor Manabu Miyoshi 

 (1861-1939) 



A Japanese botanist and authority on ornamental cherry trees, Dr. 

 Miyoshi was one of three scientists who, in 1912, selected the second 

 group of cherry trees to be sent to Washington, D.C. 



Dr. Miyoshi was born in Tokyo, Japan. Upon graduating from Tokyo 

 University in 1889, he studied botany in Germany. In 1895, he returned to 

 Japan to become a Professor of Botany at Tokyo University. In 1921, he 

 was elected to the Imperial Academy (a highly regarded Japanese schol- 

 arly organization) and authored more than 150 scientific books and 

 papers. His 1,175-page work, Die Japanischen Bergkirschen, published in 

 1916, is still today one of the most important accounts on the Japanese 

 flowering cherry trees. 



Yukio Ozaki 

 (1858-1954) 



Of the many people responsible for the Potomac Park Japanese Flow- 

 ering Cherry Tree Planting, none deserves more credit for this collection 



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