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TreeBay Tips:5¢ Advice:Free *MODERATOR GROUP* Join Date: Aug-2001 Location: Silicon Valley Country: USA USDA Zone: 9 AHS Heat Zone: 4 Posts: 9,747	Japanese Bonsai Are Better... at least on the web! I tried a search on google Japan for bonsai using the kanji for bonsai, and came up with a lot of images. Much better than you find with an English "bonsai" Hope the link works: http://images.google.co.jp/images?h...sa=N&tab=wi&lr= __________________ Want to be a seller on bonsaiAUCTIONS? Get authorized today! bonsaiTALK: Over 100,005.36 Megabytes Served this Month!

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LivingArt Penjing Wu Wei Join Date: Feb-2003 Location: FL Country: USA USDA Zone: 9 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 457	.....i could kiss you maybe not but this is really cool

11-Sep-2003	#3
Carl_Bergstrom Old Mister Crow Join Date: May-2002 Location: Seattle, WA. Country: USA USDA Zone: 8 AHS Heat Zone: 2 Posts: 3,197	Excellent, Matt! I've wanted to do something like that, but I didn't know how. A suggestion for the treebay links page: how about links to google.jp image searches for the kanji for various terms, e.g. shohin kusamono bunjin etc... That would be amazingly useful, and not something that I could just go and do myself. --- On a more humorous note, what I can say for the English-language search is that the first golf ball doesn't appear until several hundred entries into the search whereas in the Japanese search, the second image (!!) has a golf ball and, for that matter, a whole gosh-darned fairway. __________________ In love with trees Last edited by Carl Bergstrom : 11-Sep-2003 at 11:25 PM.

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LivingArt Penjing Wu Wei Join Date: Feb-2003 Location: FL Country: USA USDA Zone: 9 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 457	watch out tiger woods!

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DavidN bonsaiTALK ArchMaster Join Date: Oct-2002 Location: Melbourne Country: Australia USDA Zone: 9-10 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 3,350	sensational Matt.

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ripsgreentree bonsaiTALK Master Chief Join Date: Sep-2001 Location: Fresno, CA Country: U.S.A USDA Zone: 9 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 1,261	I have already added it to my favorites list, big thanks. Glenn __________________ ripsgreentree It requires an open hand to give and to recieve.

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Originally posted by oldmistercrow
Excellent, Matt! I've wanted to do something like that, but I didn't know how.

A suggestion for the treebay links page: how about links to google.jp image searches for the kanji for various terms, e.g.

shohin
kusamono
bunjin
etc...

well, here are a few to start with, some of the kanji weren't returning any image hits at all (like bunjin-gi and chokkan) for some reason. They're probably just poorly captioned.

Shohin ?¬•i–~?Í small bonsai
Shohin Bonsai

neagari ?ª?ã‚ª‚èexposed root
Neagari

nejikan ?€Š² curved trunk
nejikan

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Shohin ?¬•i–~?Í small bonsai
Shohin Bonsai

Ah....heaven!!!!!

Thank you, Matt!

One particularly rich site to which these photos lead is the following: All Japan Shohin Bonsai Association.

Dozens of inspiring trees there!

Carl

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Last edited by Carl Bergstrom : 12-Sep-2003 at 05:02 AM.

12-Sep-2003	#9
LivingArt Penjing Wu Wei Join Date: Feb-2003 Location: FL Country: USA USDA Zone: 9 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 457	SUGOI SUGOI!

12-Sep-2003	#10
Ralph BonsaiTalk Master B.S.er Join Date: Jun-2002 Location: Richardson, Texas Country: God Bless America USDA Zone: 8 AHS Heat Zone: 9 Posts: 1,285	I spent a couple hours last night going to sites from the original link the Matt stated the thread with. Interesting how you can find all sorts Asian bonsai web sites. I saw sites from Hong Kong, Korea, and Taiwan as well as the many Japanese ones. Copyrights stink in this case. I would love to post some of the photos I have seen to discuss these trees. There are some in styles I don't think I have seen before, or are interpreting the style in a way that I haven't seen. For example there was this black pine cascade, several trunks all cascading. Also bonsai of all quality, clearly "mallsai" are not unique to western countries. Last edited by Ralph : 12-Sep-2003 at 11:43 AM.

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