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Sand Pine Pinus mugo: Mugo Pine, Mountain Pine Pinus parviflora: 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 ...
Buddhist pine is highly regarded as a feng shui tree in Hong Kong, giving it a very high market value. In recent years, the illegal digging of Buddhist pine has become a problem in the city. [5] This species can be trained as a bonsai. [6]
Japanese white pine, "Sandai Shogun" (The Third Shogun), approximately 550 years old, Imperial Collection, 1938. Bonsai dating to the 17th century have survived to the present. One of the oldest-known living bonsai trees, considered one of the National Treasures of Japan, is in the Tokyo Imperial Palace collection. [17]
Kobayashi was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1948. His family was involved in floriculture, [1] and he grew up working in a nursery. [2] In 1976, at age 28, he saw a Japanese white pine bonsai in an exhibition and was inspired to study the art form. [2]
Bonsai are carefully styled to maintain miniaturization, to suggest age, and to meet the artist's aesthetic goals. Tree styling also occurs in a larger scale in other practices like topiary and niwaki. In bonsai, however, the artist has close control over every feature of the tree, because it is small and (in its container) easily moved and ...
Pinus thunbergii (syn: Pinus thunbergiana), the black pine, [2] Japanese black pine, [3] or Japanese pine, [4] is a pine tree native to coastal areas of Japan (Kyūshū, Shikoku and Honshū) and South Korea. [5] It is called gomsol (곰솔) in Korean, hēisōng (黑松) in Chinese, and kuromatsu (黒松) in Japanese.
A bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) forest bonsai on display at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum, U.S. National Arboretum. In training since 1988. A suiseki at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum, U.S. National Arboretum. In addition to the bonsai trees, the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum has a world-class collection of viewing stones.
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 ]