Sokan Bonsai
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Sokan bonsai. In the slanting bonsai style the trunk has a more acute angle than in the previous styles. Sokan style or twin trunk bonsai sokan style or twin trunk bonsai has two trunk s rising from the root system or nebari. Clump style this is basically the same as the double trunk style sokan. However we only refer to a multi trunk style if three or more trunks are growing out of the ground from a single root base.
The trunks may split immediately above the roots or rise as one from the soil and then split after a few inches. Bonsai is an art form that stems from ancient asian culture originating in china and developed by the japanese. Sokan double trunk style. In the 13th century the japanese collected and potted wild trees that had been dwarfed by nature.
Sokan style or twin trunk bonsai has two trunks rising from the root system or nebari. Tray planting pronounced is a japanese art form which utilizes cultivation techniques to produce in containers small trees that mimic the shape and scale of full size trees. Slanting trees in nature are called leaners trees that have been forced by the wind and gravity into non vertical growth. Each tree however has its own character and within a certain.
Similar practices exist in other cultures including the chinese tradition of penzai or penjing from which the art originated and the miniature living landscapes of vietnamese hòn. Jun 5 2015 twin trunk can make some very stately bonsai. The trunks may split immediately above the roots or rise as one from the soil and then split after a few inches. Slanted style trees often provide a powerful impression of strength and age.
This bonsai tree with three trunks is a sankan one with one trunk is called tankan and trees divided into two or more trunks are classified as takan. Care must be taken when creating sokan style bonsai especially where the back branches and the roots are concerned 14. A bonsai tree with two trunks from one set of roots is called sokan and trees with five or more trunks are called kabudachi. Usually both trunks will grow out of one root system but it is also possible that the smaller trunk grows out of the larger trunk just above the ground.
These trunks cannot be separate unlike a group cultivation yose ue. These naturally formed miniatures were some of the first bonsai.