Chinese Bonsai Styles
12 types of bonsai trees illustrated via 54 pictures organized by style shape.
Chinese bonsai styles. Root over rock style is also very popular because of the rapid root growth. 1 ikadabuki raft style penjing landscape by matyie che makhtar. While they are young they can easily be wired into curved shapes and are suited to many bonsai styles. Includes upright slanted windswept cascading multi trunk forest and more.
An ikadabuki raft style penjing landscape by matyie che makhtar. Slanting bonsai style shakan as a result of the wind blowing in one dominant direction or when a tree grows in the shadow and must bend toward the sun the tree will lean in one direction. One of the main features of trident maple is that it can take heavy root pruning which makes it perfect for bonsai. Trunk and root placement.
My teacher kept telling us that the southern style is the better one and i always thought what he said was a bias statement that purely based on personal taste. You can use different styles with trident maple bonsai tree including curved trunk broom group plantings and clump styles. Coiled style this twisted style is probably the closest to what came from china. 3 chinese penjing landscape with figurine by matyie che makhtar.
This tree was selected from a batch of early imports in the 1980s. For example a bonsai with a twisted trunk is nebikan also nejikan ねじ幹 and one with a vertical split or hollows is sabakan. Slanting the trunk is straight like that of a bonsai grown in the formal upright style. Bonsai is a japanese word which means planted in a container.
A chinese renaissance several years ago that i grasped a deeper meaning and the genuine differences. Chinese bonsai has always fascinated me. Many bonsai growers like to expose the long roots as seen in this tree to create the neagari style. The leaves are especially small.
However the slant style trunk emerges from the soil at an angle and the apex of the bonsai will be located. The deadwood bonsai styles identify trees with prominent dead branches or trunk scarring. She wrote a beautifully worded thorough article on the subject for the art of bonsai blog. Often called the dragon style or green dragon it is a favorite in chinese bonsai and is an auspicious presence in the garden.
2 casuarina equisetifolia landscape by eddy sebayang. The roots are well developed on one side to keep the tree standing. Since my first bonsai class i have learned that there are two distinct regional variations in chinese bonsai penjing the southern style and the northern style. Perhaps that s the reason bunjin aka literati is one of my favorite bonsai styles it wasn t until i read karin albert s penjing.