Yup, you sure do!
ONe thing to do, I suppose, is to learn more about your goal as you set out. Here is a quick google image search:
http://images.google.com/images?svn...ngi&btnG=Search
Try a few different terms to get an idea of what the form is about to know where to go.
In general, the use of sacrifice branchees and shaping with wire apply to any style, just in a different way. Here you are going for a more slender, tortured trunk, but slender does not mean wimpy little, wisp, just different proportions. So you still need to use sacrifice branches properly placed to develop a trunk.
Then beat it all the heck to get your wabi sabi on
pootsie