The other day, I visited Japanese Bonsai Museum at Edogawa-ward in Tokyo.
It calls 春花園ＢＯＮＳＡI美術館(shunkaen Bosai Museum).
This bonsai museum is famous, which have been visited by world celebrities like Jeff Bezos, Cameron Diaz. More than 80 percent of visitors are foreigners.
Almost a thousand of bonsai trees in this garden, moreover, tea ceremony room and taiko bridge has built over a pond for kois in sight.
This museum founded by Kunio Kobayashi who is a prominent authority as a Japanese bonsai artist since 1989. He has trained over 200 successors of all over the world.
https://kunio-kobayashi.com/en/index.html
So what, Bonsai? You don’t know that? OK, let me explain what is Bonsai.
Bonsai (dwarf trees) is an art form that consists of planting a tree in a ceramic pot. Also, articles of taste to be admired through a process of cultivation that draws on the accents the plant’s vital powers, producing a natural elegance of form pleasing to the eye.
It was introduced to Japan the Nara and Heian Period (8 to 12 centuries) from China, whereafter it developed independently in Japan.
Bosai can last for periods ranging from decades to centuries, gradually gaining character as they age. Special cultivation method will be applied.
The essence of the art of cultivation lies in skillfully controlling the growth of the tree through promoting and restraining technics.
Bonsai are cultivated into variety of shapes by controlling such factors as the arrangement of the trunk (upright, learning, twisted, growing from a vertical face), the number of trees (single, multiple, clumped) and the root configuration (horizon with trunks rising from place to place, rock-clinging, partially exposed).
Trees are, mainly used pine tree, but many other types of trees can be used, such as various evergreens and deciduous trees, and trees that blossom, and bear fruit, and each has its own unique attractiveness.
Bonsai tree is, one symbolic subject, which is Japanese people love of natural beauty, Zen-inspired micro-world in the world.
This bonsai garden must be an oasis in concrete jungle of Tokyo, I felt a few degrees cooler in the center of the Tokyo, actually.