Title: Bonsai
Content: some specialized care techniques: Bonsai aesthetics are the aesthetic goals characterizing the Japanese tradition of growing an artistically shaped miniature tree in a container. Many Japanese cultural characteristics, in particular the influence of Zen Buddhism and the expression of Wabi-sabi, inform the bonsai tradition in Japan. Established art forms that share some aesthetic principles with bonsai include penjing and saikei. A number of other cultures around the globe have adopted the Japanese aesthetic approach to bonsai, and, while some variations have begun to appear, most hew closely to the rules and design philosophies of the Japanese tradition. Over centuries of

Title: Bonsai aesthetics
Content: of the Japanese tradition. The aesthetics of "penjing", a Chinese form of container-grown tree, are distinct from those of bonsai and are discussed elsewhere. The aesthetics of "saikei", Japanese multi-tree landscapes in a container, are also distinct and are not described in this article. Over centuries of practice, the Japanese bonsai aesthetic has encoded some important methods and aesthetic guidelines. Like the type of aesthetic rules that govern, for example, Western common practice period music, bonsai's guidelines help practitioners work within an established tradition with some assurance of success. Guidelines alone do not guarantee a successful result. Nevertheless, these design

Title: Bonsai styles
Content: Bonsai styles Bonsai is a Japanese art form using miniature trees grown in containers. Similar practices exist in other cultures, including the Chinese tradition of "penjing" from which the art originated, and the miniature living landscapes of Vietnamese "hòn non bộ", but this article describes the Japanese tradition. The Japanese art of bonsai dates back over a thousand years, and has evolved its own unique aesthetics and terminology. A key design practice in bonsai is a set of commonly understood, named styles that describe canonical tree and setting designs. These well-known styles provide a convenient shorthand means for communicating about

Title: Nanga (Japanese painting)
Content: of bonsai is called variously "bunjin", "bunjingi" or "literati" and is intended to look like the trees portrayed in "nanga" art. Examples of the style are often elegantly elongated and with few branches, being mainly a long slim trunk surmounted by a very small mass of foliage. The art of flower arrangement "ikebana" developed the "bunjinbana" (文人花) style, which was in homage to Chinese landscapes and literati paintings. Nanga (Japanese painting) , also known as , was a school of Japanese painting which flourished in the late Edo period among artists who considered themselves literati, or intellectuals. While each of

Title: Bonsai
Content: specialists to becoming a widely popular art form and hobby. In Itami, Hyōgo (near Osaka), Japanese scholars of Chinese arts gathered in the early 19th century to discuss recent styles in the art of miniature trees. Many terms and concepts adopted by this group were derived from the ("Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden" in English; in Japanese).The Japanese version of potted trees, which had been previously called or other terms, were renamed "bonsai" (the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese term penzai). This word connoted a shallow container, not a deeper bowl style. The term "bonsai", however, would not become

Question: With what is the Japanese art of bonsai concerned?
Answer: Miniature Trees