jportock

I'm a newbie to bonsai as well so please take this advice with a grain of salt. Perhaps it is the perspective that is on the tree in the picture but I would cut back to just above those bottom branches and wire the branch on the left up. From what I have read these trees back bud readily and it seems to me that would be a good place to induce taper in relation to the trunk.
Unless you were attempting a literati.

Good luck,
JP

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