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(tray planting) is a Japanese art form using cultivation techniques to produce small trees in containers that mimic the shape and scale of full size trees. [1]

77 relations: Aesthetics, Akadama, Alcove (architecture), Beijing, Bhikkhu, Blog, Bonsai aesthetics, Bonsai cultivation and care, Bonsai Kitten, Bonsai styles, Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, China, Concrete, Copper, Cutting (plant), Deadwood bonsai techniques, Deciduous, Dwarfing, Emperor Meiji, Evergreen, Expo '70, Fiberglass, Garden centre, Grafting, Hòn Non Bộ, Hibiya Park, Hot-dip galvanization, Huntington Library, Ikebana, Itami, Hyōgo, Japan, Japanese missions to Imperial China, Kanji, Kasuga Gongen Genki E, Kusamono and shitakusa, Kyoto, Layering, Leaf, List of species used in bonsai, Mambonsai, Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden, Micro landschaft, Monastery, Mono no aware, Munich, National Treasure (Japan), Noh, Orlando, Florida, Osaka, ..., Penjing, Perennial plant, Pinus parviflora, Politician, Saikei, Samurai, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Scroll, Seoul, Steel, Temperate climate, Tenmei, Tokoname, Tokonoma, Tokugawa Iemitsu, Tokyo, Tokyo Imperial Palace, Tree, Ueno Park, Wabi-sabi, Washington, D.C., Wire, World War II, Yixing, Yuji Yoshimura, Zeami Motokiyo, 1964 Summer Olympics. Expand index (27 more) »

Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

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Akadama

is a naturally occurring, granular clay-like mineral used as soil for bonsai trees and other container-grown plants.

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Alcove (architecture)

In architecture, an alcove is a recessed area open from a larger room but enclosed by walls, pillars, or other architectural elements.

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Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

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Bhikkhu

A bhikkhu (from Pali, Sanskrit: bhikṣu) is an ordained male monastic ("monk") in Buddhism.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

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Bonsai aesthetics

Bonsai aesthetics are the aesthetic goals and characteristics of the Japanese tradition in the art of growing a miniature tree in a container.

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Bonsai cultivation and care

Bonsai cultivation and care involves the long-term cultivation of small trees in containers, called bonsai in the Japanese tradition of this art form.

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Bonsai Kitten

Bonsai Kitten was a satirical website that claimed to provide instructions on how to grow a kitten in a jar, so as to mold the bones of the kitten into the shape of the jar as the cat grows, much like how a bonsai plant is shaped.

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Bonsai styles

Bonsai is a Japanese art form using miniature trees grown in containers.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Chan Buddhism

Chan (of), from Sanskrit dhyāna (meaning "meditation" or "meditative state"), is a Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Concrete

Concrete, usually Portland cement concrete, is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens over time—most frequently a lime-based cement binder, such as Portland cement, but sometimes with other hydraulic cements, such as a calcium aluminate cement.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Cutting (plant)

A plant cutting is a piece of a plant that is used in horticulture for vegetative (asexual) propagation.

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Deadwood bonsai techniques

Bonsai is a Japanese art using miniature trees grown in containers, similar in some ways to the Chinese art of penjing and the Vietnamese art of hòn non b. The Japanese tradition of bonsai cultivation contains many specialized terms and techniques for creating bonsai and enhancing the illusion of age and the portrayal of austerity that mark a successful bonsai.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/dɪˈsɪdʒuəs/) means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Dwarfing

Dwarfing is a process in which a breed of animals or cultivar of plants is changed to become significantly smaller than standard members of their species.

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Emperor Meiji

, or, was the 122nd Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from February 3, 1867 until his death on July 29, 1912.

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Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green.

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Expo '70

was a world's fair held in Suita, Osaka, Japan, between March 15 and September 13, 1970.

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Fiberglass

Fiberglass (US) or fibreglass (UK) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.

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Garden centre

A garden centre is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business.

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Grafting

Grafting or graftage is a horticultural technique whereby tissues of plants are joined so as to continue their growth together.

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Hòn Non Bộ

Hòn Non Bộ is the Vietnamese art of making miniature landscapes, imitating the scenery of the islands, mountains and surrounding environment as found in nature.

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Hibiya Park

Hibiya Park (日比谷公園 Hibiya Kōen) is a park in Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan.

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Hot-dip galvanization

Hot-dip galvanization is a form of galvanization.

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Huntington Library

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens (or The Huntington) is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927) and located in Los Angeles County in San Marino, California.

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Ikebana

is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.

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Itami, Hyōgo

Itami (Itami City) is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese missions to Imperial China

The Japanese missions to Imperial China were diplomatic embassies which were intermittently sent to the Chinese court.

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Kanji

Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.

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Kasuga Gongen Genki E

Kasuga Gongen Genki E (春日権現験記絵、かすがごんげんげんきえ) is a set of painted handscrolls (emakimono) that was produced during the early 14th Century (Kamakura period) of Japan, by members of the Fujiwara clan.

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Kusamono and shitakusa

Kusamono (literally "grass thing") and shitakusa (literally "undergrass") are a potted collection of plants designed to be viewed either in accompaniment with bonsai or alone.

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Kyoto

, officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Layering

Layering has evolved as a common means of vegetative propagation of numerous species in natural environments.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.

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List of species used in bonsai

List of species commonly used in bonsai.

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Mambonsai

A mambonsai,, is a pop culture twist on the traditional Japanese art of bonsai.

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Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden

Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden (芥子園畫傳), sometimes known as (芥子園畫譜), is a printed manual of Chinese painting compiled during the early-Qing Dynasty.

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Micro landschaft

A micro schaft, also microschaft, is an Anglicized loanword portmanteau of micro(scopic) (Greek mikrós, small) and landschaft (German for landscape), lit.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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Mono no aware

, literally "the pathos of things", and also translated as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera", is a Japanese term for the awareness of, or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.

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Munich

Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

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National Treasure (Japan)

Some of the National Treasures of Japan A National Treasure (国宝: kokuhō) is the most precious of Japan's Tangible Cultural Properties, as determined and designated by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (a subsidiary of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology).

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Noh

, derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent", is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama that has been performed since the 14th century.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Orange County.

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Osaka

() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Penjing

Penjing, also known as penzai, is the ancient Chinese art of depicting artistically formed trees, other plants, and landscapes in miniature.

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Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Pinus parviflora

Pinus parviflora, also known as five-needle pine, Ulleungdo white pine, or Japanese white pine, is a pine in the white pine group, Pinus subgenus Strobus, native to Korea and Japan.

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Politician

A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government.

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Saikei

literally translates as "planted landscape".

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Samurai

were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan (Saint John) is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Scroll

A scroll (from the Old French escroe or escroue), also known as a roll, is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing.

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Seoul

Seoul (like soul; 서울), officially the Seoul Special Metropolitan City – is the capital, Constitutional Court of Korea and largest metropolis of South Korea.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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Temperate climate

In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.

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Tenmei

is a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, literally "years name") for the years between the An'ei Era and before the Kansei Era, from April 1781 through January 1789.

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Tokoname

is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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Tokonoma

, or simply toko (床), is a built-in recessed space in a Japanese style reception room, in which items for artistic appreciation are displayed.

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Tokugawa Iemitsu

Tokugawa Iemitsu (徳川 家光 August 12, 1604 – June 8, 1651) was the third shōgun of the Tokugawa dynasty.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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Tokyo Imperial Palace

The is the primary residence of the Emperor of Japan.

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Tree

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species.

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Ueno Park

is a spacious public park in the Ueno district of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan.

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Wabi-sabi

In traditional Japanese aesthetics, is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Wire

A wire is a single, usually cylindrical, flexible strand or rod of metal.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yixing

Yixing is a county-level city with a population of 1.24 million administrated under the prefecture-level city of Wuxi in southern Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China, and is part of the Yangtze River Delta.

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Yuji Yoshimura

Yuji Yoshimura (February 27, 1921 Tokyo, Japan – December 24, 1997 Boston, Massachusetts) was a second-generation distinguished bonsai master who taught traditional Japanese techniques and aesthetics to enthusiasts in the West.

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Zeami Motokiyo

(c. 1363 – c. 1443), also called, was a Japanese aesthetician, actor, and playwright.

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1964 Summer Olympics

The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 10 to 24 October 1964.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai

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