The Master Gardener

Edo Ball artwork titled The Master Gardener — a Japanese-inspired basketball illustration featuring a serene woman tending to lush green plants, symbolizing balance, growth, and harmony between nature and the art of the game.
 

The Master Gardener

達人庭師

Once a warrior in the service of the old Emperor, The Master Gardener now devotes her life to nurturing the courts that sustain the game. She plants bamboo grown in pots made from worn basketballs and fragments of stone from The Rock, giving each shoot strength, flexibility, and memory.

Her gardens stretch across the western valleys — living courts where balance and patience guide play. Each grove she cultivates becomes a space where competition softens into art, where the line between plant and player blurs into harmony.

The Emperor still commissions her work for the great courts of Edo Ball. To her, every stalk of bamboo is a reflection of the players who once battled before her — firm in purpose, graceful in movement, and alive with the will to grow. The Gardener no longer fights, but through her craft, the game continues to bloom.

Traits Ability Collectables
Nurturing, Spiritual, Artistic Rooted Guard — Defends with quiet, natural grace. Art Print →
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