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Toru Kinoshita (landscaping)

Last Updated January 18, 2024

Toru Kinoshita Meister face photo

Toru Kinoshita (Toru Kinoshita)
Landscaping

Selection for FY2020 (25th term)
Lives and works in Totsuka Ward

Born in Kamakura City, 1958
1989 Established Kinoshita Garden Management Co., Ltd.
Class 1 landscaping technician
1st-class landscaping construction management engineer
Vocational training instructor (landscaping department)
Class 1 Exterior Planner
Manufacturing Meister (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
He has served as an information committee member of the Kanagawa Prefectural Landscaping Association and a skill test committee member.

It is important to work from the customer's point of view and compassion for unspeakable trees.

"The most important thing in working is not to lie from the customer's point of view," says Kinoshita, who uses artificial bamboo fences that are stronger than natural materials and less burden of maintenance. We always incorporate new methods tailored to the times while always taking care of traditional skills and materials, such as making them in the same way as natural materials and proposing barrier-free gardens in anticipation of the future.

Regarding pruning, he says, "I want many people to know the correct way to minimize the burden on trees based on CODIT theory, while taking advantage of the tradition of landscaping."

In addition to landscaping technology workshops such as extension steps, masonry, and lighting at the Kanagawa Landscaping Association, we also conduct pruning courses for the general public. In addition, we actively send out our own pruning and landscaping work processes on YouTube and SNS.

Meister's skill

The work of Toru Kinoshita Meister

"Suikinkutsu", a Japanese landscaping technique unique to Japan, in which a bottle is buried underground in a squatting (Tsukubai) in a Japanese garden or under a hand basin, and the fallen water droplets echo into a cavity to produce sound. Has valuable skills, such as developing a system that does not accumulate mud at the bottom of a bottle.

In addition, YouTube, which introduces the work process and pruning technology of one's own landscaping in videos, has received high praise not only from the general public but also from peers, and questions from many registrants etc. I am answering carefully.

Profile

The work of Toru Kinoshita Meister (Suikoto Cave)

After graduating from university, he explored the way to a musician, and worked for four years at a gardening company in a gardening company and a town.

After that, he served as Representative Director of Kinoshita Garden Management Co., Ltd. (from 1989 to 2021) and continues to the present.

A book

Textbook of Pruning "Tips" (Kodansha, issued on April 5, 2022)

Major Awards

1987 Kanagawa Prefectural Skills Competition Class 2 Landscaping Award (Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture)
2017 National Urban Greenery Yokohama Fair Garden Exhibition Contest Silver Award
2019 Yokohama City Skill Achievement Award (The Mayor of Yokohama), Kanagawa Landscaping Association Skill Achievement Award (Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture)

Toru Kinoshita Meister's work (creative fence)