There
are branches that are not entirely visible on the low left that would serve to lower and elongate the foliage out leftwards if needed. Trouble is (as you point out OMC) the trunk if I do anything other than a broom.
This is ironic too, when I bought the tree I bought the latest copy of
Bonsai Europe magazine, and on page 5 is a tree very similar to this one, but the trunk is inclined to point to about 10 o'clock. It's powerful and has character without looking strange.
If others can come up with a way to solve the trunk problem (I may even figure it myself yet) I would love to go with a style similar to OMC's virt.
Regards