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Rare Maple Drop Index is an independent, free directory of rare and dwarf Japanese maple cultivars, the specialty nurseries that grow them, and their public release schedules.

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Nurseries can't pay to change their ranking or placement in this index. Sponsors are always labeled as sponsors.

Sources

Listings are compiled from publicly available nursery information.

Art credits

Prints are public domain or openly licensed from museum and archive collections, as credited below.

• The actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Mongaku and Matsumoto Koshiro V as Fudo Myoo
  Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) · c. 1829/32 · Edo period · Color woodblock print; vertical shikishiban diptych, surimono
  Art Institute of Chicago · accession 1954.671 · Gift of Helen C. Gunsaulus · Public domain (CC0 1.0, Art Institute of Chicago Open Access; is_public_domain: true) · Source
• Dragons Among Clouds
  Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 · 1844 · Edo period · Color woodblock print; surimono
  Art Institute of Chicago · accession 1938.597 · Clarence Buckingham Collection · Public domain (CC0 1.0, Art Institute of Chicago Open Access; is_public_domain: true) · Source
• No. 2: Ushiwakamaru Learns Swordsplay from the Tengu at Sojogatani on Mount Kurama (Nikai, Kuramayama Sojogatani ni oite Ushiwakamaru ijin yori kenpo o manabu), from the series "The Life of Yoshitsune (Yoshitsune ichidai zue)"
  Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 · c. 1832/34 · Edo period · Color woodblock print; oban
  Art Institute of Chicago · accession 1925.3795 · Clarence Buckingham Collection · Public domain (CC0 1.0, Art Institute of Chicago Open Access; is_public_domain: true) · Source
• Horimoto Gidayū Takatoshi, from the series "Heroes of the Taiheiki (Taiheiki eiyūden)"
  Utagawa Kuniyoshi · ca. 1848 · Edo period · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · accession 2001.715.6 · Purchase, Arnold Weinstein Gift, 2001 · Public domain (CC0, The Met Open Access; isPublicDomain: true) · Source
• Akashi Ridayu Hidemoto, from the series "Heroes of the Taiheiki (Taiheiki eiyūden)"
  Utagawa Kuniyoshi · ca. 1848 · Edo period · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · accession 2001.715.7 · Purchase, Arnold Weinstein Gift, 2001 · Public domain (CC0, The Met Open Access; isPublicDomain: true) · Source
• Tawaraya Tōda and a Dragon; Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain, from the series "Heroes of China and Japan (Wakan gōki soroe)"
  Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 1868, 4th month · Meiji period · Color woodblock print
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art · accession M.84.31.198 · Herbert R. Cole Collection · Public domain (LACMA collections record publicDomain flag) · Source
• The Fourth Battle at Kawanakajima (西条山引返之図)
  Utagawa Yoshitsuna · ca. 1847–52
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · accession JP1115.7a–c · Gift of Harold de Raasloff, 1918 · Public domain (Met Open Access; isPublicDomain: true) · Source
• Ladies in Waiting of the Chiyoda Castle: Sword Practice and Puppet Kyōgen
  Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu · 1895
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · accession JP3555 · Public domain (Met Open Access; isPublicDomain: true) · Source
• Yoshino-yama kassen (吉野山合戦): Yokokawa Kakuhan (横河覚範)
  Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi)
  National Diet Library, Japan · Public domain (NDL: copyright protection period expired) · Source
• Ōeyama Shuten-dōji taiji (triptych)
  Utagawa Yoshitsuya · 1858
  Wikimedia Commons (museum copy: National Gallery of Victoria 2015.156.a-c) · Public domain · Source
• “‘A Molted Cicada Shell’ (Utsusemi): Soga Gorō Tokimune,” from the series Scenes amid Genji Clouds Matched with Ukiyo-e Pictures (Genji-gumo ukiyo e-awase)
  Utagawa Kuniyoshi · ca. 1845–61 · Edo period · Woodblock ōban print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · accession 2018.893.2 · Gift of Ronin Gallery, 2018 · Public domain (CC0, The Met Open Access; isPublicDomain: true) · Source
• Ghosts of the Taira at Daimotsu Bay
  Utagawa Kuniyoshi · 1843–47 · Edo period · Triptych of woodblock-printed books (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · accession JP1565 · Fletcher Fund, 1929 · Public domain (CC0, The Met Open Access; isPublicDomain: true) · Source

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