History of Magical Miniature Landscapes

RobertJBaran

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Excellent, excellent! I love history and bonsai history, especially.

BTW, in the recent era, Paradise Yamamoto's art, books and the later animated dioramas of Mambonsai are probably equally noteworthy with Lisa Tajima's work, (even though he did decline our initial interview request)

http://www.mambonsai.com
http://www.theallineed.com/news/0503/237095.htm


ISBNs escape me at the moment. Oops, found them! They are the numbers in the rightmost column of this Japanese page, beginning with The Mambonsai, Vol 1, ISBN 4167660334
http://www31.ocn.ne.jp/~nisse/mambonsai.html

In a nutshell these Mambonsai are scenes depicting cultural concerns or fantasies, created with a combination of living bonsai and detailed plastic human & animal figurines (mudmen). They are beautifully photographed and some were even turned into plastic animated models available to the general public. The name Mambonsai is a clever combination of three terms, Man, Mambo and Bonsai. The representation of the first syllable (written with an intentional ambiguity in Katakana) can be pronounced MAM or MAN together with the Kanji for bonsai.

Regards,

Matt

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pootsie

Robert:

Thank you very much for all the hard work you have put into this and other projects. You've provided us with very valuable resources. I look forward to getting a minute or 20 to take a good look at this.

Besides, any man who likes Maine Coons must be alright

pootsie

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Bonsaifreak

Thank you Robert! I am giving a presentation about Bonsai in the tropics and in Asia this evening at our local club. This information will be extremely useful for it. I appreciate you sharing it with us!

Jorge

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SiNguyen

Thanks so much for the Bonsai timeline! Very informative! especially your inclusion of pertinent current events along with the developments of bonsai in different countries. As an American with Vietnamese ancestry, I found your references of some Vietnamese history very interesting.

Thanks again, Si