Koju-en visit, Kyoto, July 2019

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You will be needing to change your moniker.

It has less to do with bonsai and more to do with my lack of creativity on screen names.

 

[JudyB]

Thanks so much for taking us along on your trip! Shohin are addictive....

Some really amazing trees in there.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

This trip has opened my eyes and pushed me to desire making better trees. I love the tree and pot combinations, the excellent trunks, movement, branching, the different species used, AGE, everything!!!

 

[thumblessprimate1]

I hope yall were able to pick out some of the cool species. Only one I dont know is the one with compound leaves from a few of the earlier posts. Sorry again for the low quality pictures. I was trying to be careful as space is tight, and most of the time I also held an umbrella at the same time.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

I was tempted so many times to buy a persimmon or a gardenia, and pay a friend to care for it. Next time!

 

[hemmy]

Only one I dont know is the one with compound leaves from a few of the earlier posts.

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It looks like a Japan Pepper Tree, Zanthoxylum piperitum.

It looks like it gets imported to Europe as very rough pre-bonsai. But this site has a nice one.

Traditioneller Bonsai: Pfefferbaum - Zanthoxylum Piperitum

Trotz des Namens, gehört der Pfefferbaum nicht zu den Verwandten des schwarzen Pfeffers, sondern zur Familie der Zitruspflanzen. Er ist ein immergrüner Baum mit kraftvollem Wachstum. Die schnell reifende Rinde und die gelegentlichen weißen Blüten sind das Markenzeichen dieses Bonsais. Höhe: 53...

boomki.de

 

[thumblessprimate1]

It looks like a Japan Pepper Tree, Zanthoxylum piperitum.

It looks like it gets imported to Europe as very rough pre-bonsai. But this site has a nice one.

Traditioneller Bonsai: Pfefferbaum - Zanthoxylum Piperitum

Trotz des Namens, gehört der Pfefferbaum nicht zu den Verwandten des schwarzen Pfeffers, sondern zur Familie der Zitruspflanzen. Er ist ein immergrüner Baum mit kraftvollem Wachstum. Die schnell reifende Rinde und die gelegentlichen weißen Blüten sind das Markenzeichen dieses Bonsais. Höhe: 53...

boomki.de

They look similar, but I'm not convinced they are the same by your example. The compound leaves of the trees I saw have a distinct curve from the petiole to the terminal leaf. Also, the sections in between the pair of leaflets on the compound leaves on your example seems to have some form of leaf, while my example do not.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

@hemmy
I found the details I was looking for right on Kojuen's fb page. So fun to see some of the trees they posted in person.

As awesome as the trees were at other nurseries, I'm not sure why I'm still feeling so happy thinking of this shohin nursery.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Such beauty found there...though still drawn to the exposed root. I'm warped that way.
This one...