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Extensive wiring can be seen on this bonsai specimen. Wrapping copper or aluminium wire around branches and trunks allows the bonsai designer to create the desired general form and make detailed branch and leaf placements. When wire is used on new branches or shoots, it holds the branches in place until they lignify (convert into wood). The ...
Wiring branches and trunks allows the bonsai designer to create the desired general form and make detailed branch and leaf placements. [55] Clamping using mechanical devices for shaping trunks and branches; bending of branches or trunks may also be achieved by the use of tension cables or guy-wires. [56]
A number of styles describe the trunk shape and bark finish. For example, a bonsai with a twisted trunk is nebikan (also nejikan (ねじ幹)), and one with a vertical split or hollows is sabakan. The deadwood bonsai styles identify trees with prominent dead branches or trunk scarring. [3]: 123–124 Trunk and root placement.
Tree shaping (also known by several other alternative names) uses living trees and other woody plants as the medium to create structures and art. There are a few different methods [2] used by the various artists to shape their trees, which share a common heritage with other artistic horticultural and agricultural practices, such as pleaching, bonsai, espalier, and topiary, and employing some ...
Prints out of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō as Potted Landscapes depicting Bonkei, by Utagawa Yoshishige (1848). A bonkei (盆景, Japanese for "tray landscape") [1]: 15–19 is a temporary or permanent three-dimensional depiction of a landscape in miniature, portrayed using mainly dry materials like rock, papier-mâché or cement mixtures, and sand in a shallow tray.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Indoor Bonsai (Reprinted 1987 ed.). New York: Blandford Press.
The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō as Potted Landscapes is a Japanese art book published by print artist Utagawa Yoshishige as two volumes in 1848. Each image is an artist's print, and the source for each image is a single Japanese bowl landscape in the traditional bonkei art form. All individual bonkei specimens were created by a second artist ...
Branches should begin about one-third of the way up the trunk, and be continuous from there to the tip of the trunk (this guideline is specifically broken for the literati, or Bunjin-gi, style). Branch size should diminish from the base to the top of the tree. No major tree branch should cross the trunk when viewed from the tree's "front".