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Thanks for the quick replies, everyone.

ozzerbon - You're absolutely right about the pics being too small. That was my first post and I don't quite know what I'm doing yet. Hopefully I can figure it out and attach some bigger ones to this post.

fredtruck - I found your thread very helpful indeed. My experience has some things in common with yours in that I live in an old house (1897), so it is likely that my plant, like yours, has some age on it. I am not sure what species it is. People here seem to refer to it as simply 'japonica,' but it looks a lot like yours, so it may be a speciosa. The bulbous part of the stump I referred to is several inches in diameter, but I'm not sure how much of it is still alive, and due to the reverse taper underneath it I'm wondering if I planted it too high. At any rate, your detailed timeline gives me a good idea of what to expect over the next few years.

bwaynef - That sounds like good advice to me. Especially the idea of shovel chopping the roots six inches out. I originally took as big a rootball as possible (like fredtruck, I had a friend helping), so some in-ground rootpruning should help transition it to a pot eventually. But since two (or three, depending on how you count) of the plants are joined underground, I wasn't sure if there was some way to take advantage of that connection. If so, then perhaps I wouldn't want to chop that particular root.

Thanks again everyone, and I'd love to hear any additional thoughts,

rainyday