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pootsie

I've got three of them that I think I may be digging out of my new yard.
Do they make "credible" non-rustic bonsai?

pootsie

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weeijk

I totaly agree with Al's opinion here.


I had similar thoughts with the middle stumb, which looked to me as a kind of jin or dead wood. I would carve this more out, maybe in the future. For now I'd wait what comes out of the leaves on the left, to make a new trunk, which could even be formed as a bunjin or moyogi or..... whatever. I made you a paint virtual of my thoughts on this part of the tree. Offcourse a broom style is possible to, maybe i'd even placed the branches too much like a pine. Hope you'll be able to make something out of it. And....keep us posted.

cheers Wessel

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cbobgo

Yes, I think by definition a bunjin style has a graceful trunk with alot of movement in it. My former teacher's teacher, Mr. Nakamura from Japan, once said that a good bunjin should have over 23 curves or changes in direction in the trunk. I haven't seen that exact number quoted anywhere else, but given that he is usually one of the judges at kokufu, I take what he says as pretty important.

- bob

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