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. Read ‘art’ and most people will have in mind a painting or sculpture. In that respect it is a kind of sculpture, though, that takes for its raw material not stone or wood but a living tree. That is the art of bonsai. From the Japanese word for ‘tree in a tray’, bonsai [...] Bonsai (bon-sai), the Japanese word, literally means ‘tray planting’. It is the art of dwarfing trees or plants into pleasing shapes. Although widely accepted that this skill originated in China, it is the Japanese that developed it into a truly ethereal artform. Bonsai can be created from almost any perennial woody tree or shrubs [...] |
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