Saikei: Living Landscapes in Miniature - Hardcover

133 sayfa. 27x19 cm
This is the first book in English to describe the techniques of saikei, the most recent innovation in the timeless Japanese art of miniaturized plant culture. Saikei embraces the esthetic traditions of bonsai but allows a greater freedom in composition. Its use of ordinary stones and seedlings makes it a perfect beginning point for the aspiring bonsai enthusiast, while the bonsai connoisseur can derive pleasure in organizing the young plants into saikei patterns while he is waiting for them to mature. Saikei compositions are best suited to simple cement or earthenware trays that can be kept indoors or out, offering the city apartment dweller with space limitations or the person with his own garden equal opportunity to engage in this fascinating hobby. Saikei applies the same techniques used in bonsai for training trees to conform to desired shapes, but gives emphasis to the naturalness of the shape; a saikei tree appears as if its form had been determined by the terrain and weather con

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