Penjing Vs Bonsai

I won t bother to guess the variety.

Penjing vs bonsai. This category includes one or several trees being the main subject and utilizes contrasts yin and yang to develop tree composition. Even japanese bonsai containers are usually more subtle in both color and design. Sai plant despite the terminology penjing is more about artistic nuance in portraying natural phenomena. Bonsai by minh hanh.

And bonsai is more disciplined in technical skill with the objective of suggesting the physical perfection of an old tree. I know comparisons can be odious but sometime contrasting things bonsai in this case without relying too much on value judgements can help us see more clearly. This is kind of what i have been doing for many years most. Instead it may be more suitable to compare saikei with water and land penjing.

Penjing is more symbolic as well as a media for the artist in expressing his emotional ideas. I think of chinese penjing more of an art form than i do traditional bonsai. Some of the penjing photographs shown on this page are of displayed in washington d c. In my find it is the style where the artist is not so obsessed with the traditional styles as much as utilizing bonsai techniques to produce trees that do not so much look like stylized bonsai from japan.

The main difference between bonsai and penjing is that bonsai is a more refined stylistic depiction of nature often in single tree displays whereas penjing is more natural and wild usually displayed in a landscape form. Penjing is a superclass under penjing there are many types and styles. In contrast bonsai are more simplified in shape more refined in appearance with larger in proportion trunks and are planted in unobtrusive low sided containers with simple lines and muted colors. Bon sai then literally translates as a tree in a container and pen jing denotes a scenery in a container.

1 just wondering how many here are into the chinese penjing style of bonsai. Jing panorama and bonsai japanese. The main difference between penjing chinese. I fell in love the first time i saw them to me they re more of a radical style for bonsai and the old type pots even with cracks in them just add to the flavor.

Shumu shuomo or tree penjing penzai relate more closely to the japanese funka style bonsai. And as much as i know unlike water and land penjing one cannot find any bonsai figurine in a saikei. The national bonsai and penjing museum at the national arboretum. Generally speaking tree penjing specimens differ from bonsai by allowing a wider range of tree shapes more wild looking and by planting them in bright colored and creatively shaped pots.

Basically a japanese bonsai tree appears a little more formal than chinese penjing.