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Species - Japanese Black Pine
Style - Slanting Bunjingi
Artist - Hideko Metaxas


Shinji as translated by Hideko ( this must have been awkward)
" this tree needs to be bunjin! Bunjin are trees or persons that live in harsh conditions ie., seashore or windy mountains.
This tree has a " aged elegance" and is feminine in character.
1. this tree needs many spaces between the branches.
2. The first branch needs to be split into two branches.
3. the foliage needs to be reduced by half, and needle plucked.

The question was brought up about the straight jin sticking up on the lower trunk, the person said that here in America we would probably take that off. Shinji gave long pause and said.." we would do that in Japan too..."

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