Bonsai Nut
Nuttier than your average Nut
Rock Planting, Yahoo! Auction Japan
I like the rock.
I don't like the pot the rock is in.
The minature ferns are nice, I would mind having them.
The tree is swollen and grotesque in need of serious work.
I won't comment on the price.
Will
Take a look at the last picture once again, it needs slightly more than wiring, I'm afraid.
The tree is swollen and grotesque in need of serious work.
Will
And that is bad in bonsai because...?
Not bad in bonsai, unless it is in the wrong places.
Why would you say this is selling at such a cheap price in Japan?
Will
attila i agree 100% but i cant help help asking the question too. why so cheap. and why doesnt this guy want to double his or her money? Will wots the go what are you thinking?
I have a questopn. So does this mean we have cheap or bad bonsai here. If there junk is something that everyone in America gets excited about? Does that mean we don't know what we are doing or talking about
I have a questopn. So does this mean we have cheap or bad bonsai here. If there junk is something that everyone in America gets excited about? Does that mean we don't know what we are doing or talking about
...we need to stop copying the Japanese and start creating American Bonsai, only then will our own hearts be shown and only then will they have a world reconized value. Seriously why buy an American copy of a Japanese bonsai when you can buy the real thing?
I don't think that we are purposely trying to copy Japanese bonsai, when we buy a material like this one and try to make a good bonsai out of it.
When I see people styling trees at workshops, I do not have the impression that they are trying to copy anything. They just use what they learned from their teachers and apply it to create the best bonsai they can. If I told them that they shouldn't copy Japanese bonsai, they wouldn't know what to make out of my statement. Telling them to stop making Japanese bonsai and start creating American ones wouldn't mean anything. They'd probably say: what do you mean? No foliage pads? No apex and no triangles?
I think the answer is, those who slavishly follow certain "rules" laid down a generation ago by certain iconic figures should open their eyes that great trees don't necessarily follow "first branch, second branch, back branch" instructions. Those are for babies in the art. We can't stay there forever. We have to learn from the material.