Saikei
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Saikei is the Japanese art of creating tray landscapes that combine miniature living trees with soil, rocks, water, and related vegetation in a single tray or similar container. A saikei landscape is
Trees, soil, and rocks form a miniature living landscape in this example of a saikei.
Multi-species saikei named Roan Mountain contains Shimpaku juniper and Zakura azalea.
Saikei featuring Seiju elm
Penjing
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Penjing, also known as penzai, is the ancient Chinese art of depicting artistically formed trees, other plants, and landscapes in miniature.
Saikei
…of the similar Japanese arts of bonsai, bonseki, and bonkei, and it is related less directly to similar miniature-landscape arts such as the Chinese penjing and the Vietnamese hòn non bộ. Saikei differs from related Japanese art forms in some key ways, concentrating on the evocation of a natural living…
Penjing in root-over-rock style on display at the Chinese Penjing Collection of the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum in Washington, D.C.
Penjing at the Rock and Penjing Museum in Wuhan, China
Mural from the tomb of Prince Zhanghuai (AD 706), depicting a man with tray of pebbles and miniature fruit trees
Depiction of the Ming imperial court ladies tending or standing beside penjing