This person did a really nice job presenting these trees, see the link: http://homepage2.nifty.com/chigyoraku/E-Japan.html#anchor118586 I don't know how to put it else where.
What an absolutely cracking page. Thanks very much Richard. There are better (and more) pictures here of some species than in any of the printed references... Looking forward to having the time to go through it in depth. -E
Yes , Mr. Hayashida has a great site. Had homepage bookmarked www.inh.co.jp/~hayasida/Etop11.html {it's actually titled "The Maple" in the sub-forum}, but don't remember noticing the page you linked to, was good to revisit the site, thanks Richard.