Bonsai
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Bonsai is the Japanese art of growing and shaping miniature trees in containers, with a long documented history of influences and native Japanese development over a thousand years, and with unique aes
Bonsai, named "Kenshin Tōge" (lit. 'Kenshin's mountain pass'). Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata) presented by Uesugi Kenshin to Nagao Masakage. The tree is estimated to be about 800 years old.
Bonsai at the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum
Bonsai at the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum at the United States National Arboretum
Japanese white pine, "Sandai Shogun" (The Third Shogun), approximately 550 years old, Imperial Collection, 1938
Bonsai cultivation and care
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Bonsai cultivation and care involves the long-term cultivation of small trees in containers, called bonsai in the Japanese tradition of this art form. Similar practices exist in other Japanese art for
Bonsai
…of effort and ingenuity for the grower. Bonsai are not grown for the production of food or medicine. A bonsai is created beginning with a specimen of source material. This may be a cutting, seedling, a tree from the wild (known as yamadori) or small tree of a species suitable for bonsai development. Bonsai can be…
A Trident Maple bonsai from the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum at the United States National Arboretum.
Plant cuttings can be rooted and grown as potential bonsai.
This juniper makes extensive use of both jin (deadwood branches) and shari (trunk deadwood).
Extensive wiring can be seen on this bonsai specimen.