Tag: Literati

Styling

Just drop it

Creating a literati red pine by focusing on the dropping branch

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Pots

The best pots in town

Celebrating 40 years as the best shohin pot maker.

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Shohin

MINI BONSAI

The charm of the very, very small . . .

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Pots

All the features

Pot choice for a literati style tree.

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Styling

Jack & John

British artist, John Milton, works on a white pine in Japan.

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Styling

Is this worth spending time ?

Prunus spinosa/blackthorn as bonsai Harry Harrington explores the virtues of the blackthorn with its white flowers contrasting beautifully against its dark black bark Prunus spinosa is a tree species native to the UK and Northern […]

Technique

Just imagine…

learn how to make a bunjin How does one get the branches right? Using the bunjin-gi, or literati style, as a guide, we give an insight into how the branch placement works This can be...

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Step by step with Hemlock

Teunis Jan Klein shows us how to create a medium sized bonsai in just a few steps. This time he works on hemlock (Tsuga), a variety less commonly seen as bonsai. 1. Analysis The shrub...

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Bunjin-gi | Literati style

Literati style – This strange style is characterized by a thin slender trunk with only a few branches. The lower branches are often dead and barren, but the trunk itself is full of great character. […]