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a centuries-old grudge match between a tree and a pair of scissors, refereed by patience
means the Japanese art of cultivating miniature trees in shallow containers, kept small and shaped through careful pruning and training over many years.
from From Japanese 盆栽, literally "tray planting" — bon (盆), a shallow tray or pot, plus sai (栽), planting or cultivation. The Japanese borrowed both the characters and the practice from the older Chinese art of penzai (盆栽), the same two characters read in Chinese. So the word itself is a transplanted thing: a Chinese seedling repotted into Japanese soil, then carried out into the wider world in the 20th century, where it now flourishes far from either tray.
- oldest living
- Some bonsai are over 1,000 years old
- not a species
- Any tree can become bonsai, given torment
- hiroshima survivor
- A 400-year-old bonsai outlived the atomic bomb
- means
- Tray planting in Japanese, nothing about size
- wired in place
- Branches bent slowly with copper over years
kasuga no bonsai — japan's oldest living bonsai, over 1,300 years old, housed at ueno museum in tokyo
ficus retusa linn — specimen at crespi bonsai museum in italy, valued at over $100,000
goshin — white pine bonsai created by masahiko kimura, won prime minister award at 1980 kokufu bonsai exhibition