Snuggled beneath the canopy of a magnificent camphor tree sits a trim one-and-a-half story home that belies its age. The home was built in 1905 at the beginning of the Craftsman era, and one suspects ...

The tree had grown around the intruding plank, which Kobayashi has since removed. The limb is fatter below the gouge, as if what he’d built before, acting as a compress, had interrupted the flow ...

Camphor is the big, broadleaf evergreen tree lining Jefferson Street in front of Napa High. A huge specimen city street tree can also be seen on Calistoga Street between Jefferson and Pearl.

The sacred camphor tree at Kinomiya Shrine in Atami is no ordinary timber. Estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, it is one of Japan’s largest and oldest camphor trees.