I don’t agree that most of the trees have their initial movement to the right. It may be that most of the snow is stuck on the left side?
However, the western eye “reads” left to right, and in Japan it’s top right to bottom left. Therefore we do have different learned tendencies toward establishing movement in the west from the east. Kathy Shaner works with our club setting up our show and always says she has a hard time placing trees on the right end of the display tables because so many of our trees “read” left to right, and tend to move right. On the right end of a display, you want a tree that moves left to move viewers’ eyes into the displays.
I actually have quite a few trees that move left for display purposes; particularly shohin trees, ROR trident, and the big Shimpaku from Evergreen Gardenworks.
