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Old 9-Mar-2006   #24
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Originally Posted by shibu

As the comment above said so succinctly: Chinese is realistic, Japanese is idealistic.

Someone will have to explain to me how this example of Chinese penjing/pensai fits into the statement above.This seems to be a work based soley on the unreal and mystical...not very realistic.It always seemed to me the big argument with Penjing was it isn't realistic enough like with the comments regarding the windswept styles,trunk lines bent into the wind and etc....
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