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Meet Yasuyuki Aono: Japanese scientist who kept a 1,200-year cherry blossom record alive until his death

Each spring in Kyoto arrives with a quiet anticipation. Buds swell, branches soften, and for a brief, luminous moment, cherry blossoms transform the landscape into something almost unreal. For Prof ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In Japan, a New Steward for 1,200 Years of Cherry Blossom Data Has Been Found, Sustaining a Climate Change Research Project

Yasuyuki Aono kept track of bloom dates for Yamazakura cherry trees in Kyoto. nanamori via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 The death of a beloved scientist left empty an idiosyncratic but ...
The New York Times

Japan’s Cherry Blossom Database, 1,200 Years Old, Has a New Keeper

The remarkable catalog of dates is one of the longest-running records of climate change. Its creator died, setting off a search for a successor. By Hiroko Tabuchi For more than 1,200 years, Japanese ...
The Guardian

After 1,200 years, cherry blossom record to live on despite Japanese scientist’s death

Prof Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate change Even in his final months, he counted the days until the cherry blossoms. Prof Yasuyuki Aono of Osaka ...