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Originally Posted by Attila
My point here is that it would be nice to see a contest where quality, mature material is used. Yamadori, home grown, or purchased on auction, doesn't matter. The requirement could be that the material is still "raw", has not yet been "styled". An appointed jury could decide whether the material fulfills that condition.
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This would be a total dissaster.
First, because of the very different trees to begin with, than I mean f.i. price differences. The one with the most bucks has the overall advantage.
Second, not everywhere is that kind of yamadori material availabe. Not every one lives near mountains or coastline.
Third, the ones with the money could ruin this stock for ever, because they don't really know what to do with it. (I'd be probably one of them).
My suggestion would be, to have similar trees, with height, price and style limitations to begin with.
Lets say a Juniperus Chinensis, max height between 30-40 cm, price below 30$ to be styled as Moyogi.
Then everybody could aquire stock, and we would have one style. Further I wouldn't show the owners name, so no-one knows who's who.
Maybe this would be a good idea for next contest.
Wessel