The Ancient Art of Bonsai

Japanese Bonsai Master Kimura, «The Ancient Art of Bonsai»
Wiley Publishing, Inc. | ISBN-13: 978-0-4700-4287-833
ISBN-10: 0-4700-4287-76 | PDF | 9,12 Mb | 120 pages
In an ancient Japanese scroll written in Japan around the Kamakura period, it is translated to say: “To appreciate and find pleasure in curiously curved potted trees is to love deformity.”Whether this was intended as a positive or negative statement, it leaves us to believe thatgrowing dwarfed and twisted trees in containers was an accepted practice among the upper classof Japan by the Kamakura period.