JAKE HOBSON

For 30 years, Jake Hobson has lived and breathed Japan. It’s not just that his wife is Japanese and that he has mastered the Japanese language, he has also absorbed its craft traditions, and has schooled himself in one of its most definitive and universal art forms – – the art of pruning and shaping trees. And in bringing to Europe (his version of , he hastens to say, which isn’t at all the real thing) he has done his utmost to stay true to its spirit.