A daiza class by an American master

[kakejiku]

Understanding all that cultural stuff can be enlightening, but it can also be stifling. A little air let into an airless room can freshen things up a bit.

How CALLUS of me...

 

[kakejiku]

True understanding can only start with understanding the written word. You might as well write it in Greek cause I can't understand that either. Understand?

That is why I posted the sumie of the landscapes that have little to no writing on them....but you chose not to comment on those and went on an unrelated tangent...? Kind of confusing to me personally. Everything I write in Japanese is provided with the romanized form and then a short explanation of what it means, so I do not know why that would not be understood...

 

[daygan]

I'm just kind of confused about what kakejiku posts have to do with dick benbow's original post...

 

[Smoke]

I'm just kind of confused about what kakejiku posts have to do with dick benbow's original post...

Because they both complained about not getting any thank yous or replies? If I worried about that I would have given up on forums 13 years ago.

 

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This is what I wrote about rosewood from this thread.

Re: A Sean Smith Class on daiuza making
Kakejiku Today at 1:42 pm

.dick benbow wrote:
Rosewood is the most popular wood to make daiza's out of. Mullberry ok for stands to show bonsai but not daiza's.
best wood is from India but other rosewoods will do. A way to come close to rosewood if not available is to use walnut wood with a mahogany stain.

This is similar to the jikusaki on some scrolls. There is 紫檀 iShitanwhich is the rosewood and 紫檀塗り shitan nuri which is stained to look like Shitan. Nuri is the word for lacquer or staining...The difference is the price.

As for Mulberry as a Jiita or stand, I have been taught it is classified as a 行 Gyou Semi-formal material while the 紫檀 Rosewood and 黒檀Ebony (shitan) and (kokutan) are the formal materials....
If you do not like the Japanese I am sorry...but I think it is necessary for true undertanding.

Your telling me that someone with no experience in bonsai scrolls or stands would know from your two sentences what you are talking about. I am extremely qualified in both those areas and have no idea what you are talking about. I could make an educated guess based on some experience with Japanese terminology, but you made it sound like you give a short explanation and you have not. What is a "jikusaki ".

Would not it made more sense to say "jikusaki' ( the wooden dowel that is the bottom of the scroll. Sometimes the ends (Jiku) are shown as polished wood, bone or ceramic). That, is offering understanding.