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The Japanese art of bonsai dates back over a thousand years, and has evolved its own unique aesthetics and terminology. A key design practice in bonsai is a set of commonly understood, named styles that describe canonical tree and setting designs. These well-known styles provide a convenient shorthand means for communicating about existing ...
Bonsai aesthetics are the aesthetic goals and characteristics of the Japanese tradition of the art of bonsai, the growing of a miniature tree in a container. Many Japanese cultural characteristics, particularly the influence of Zen Buddhism and the expression wabi-sabi inform the bonsai tradition in that culture. [ 1 ]
Bonsai shaping aesthetics, techniques, and tools became increasingly sophisticated as bonsai popularity grew in Japan. In 1910, shaping with wire rather than the older string, rope, and burlap techniques, appeared in the Sanyu-en Bonsai-Dan (History of Bonsai in the Sanyu nursery). Zinc-galvanized steel wire was initially used.
Examples include Japanese red maple and Japanese black pine. [1] Second, grafting allows the bonsai artist to add branches (and sometimes roots) where they are needed to improve or complete a bonsai design. There are many applicable grafting techniques, none unique to bonsai, including branch grafting, bud grafting, thread grafting, and others ...
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Plants used in bonsai (1 C, 124 P) Pages in category "Bonsai" ... Deadwood bonsai techniques; F.
A Dwarf Japanese Juniper (Juniperus procumbens 'Nana') bonsai on display. Multiple deadwood styles have been used on this tree. Deadwood bonsai techniques are methods in the Japanese art of bonsai (cultivation of miniature trees in containers) that create, shape, and preserve dead wood on a living bonsai tree. They enhance the illusion of age ...
Japanese White Pine Pinus thunbergii: Japanese Black Pine Pinus virginiana: Virginia Pine Pinus ponderosa: Western Yellow Pine Pistacia chinensis: Chinese pistache [9] Pittosporum: Pittosporum Podocarpus, including Podocarpus macrophyllus: Podocarpus, Yew Podocarpus, Kusamaki [6]: 72–73 Polyscias fruticosa: Ming Aralia [6]: 74–75 ...
By the beginning of the 1970s, these trends were beginning to merge. A large display of bonsai and suiseki was held as part of Expo '70, and formal discussion was made of an international association of enthusiasts. Three monthly magazines were started this year: Bonsai Sekai, Satsuki Kenkyu, and Shizen to Bonsai.