MAGICAL MINIATURE LANDSCAPES A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF BONSAI
AND THE RELATED ARTS
AN ECLECTIC, ONGOING PRESENTATION
The notes for this were begun in 1986 as part of a modest effort to compile a grand history of the art, something which was not known of by this author at the time. Much of the resulting researches are now being made part of this site, an ultimate reference work accessible by persons sharing this interest worldwide. Queries to a dozen and a half publishers in the mid-1990s resulted in the awareness that this project -- over 600 single-spaced pages on all aspects of the history from neolithic China up through the near future -- was simply too detailed for most in-print markets. Growing experience with the Internet has uncovered a repository for this history which can be kept updated with new discoveries and which can be presented in a fashion that no volume or two could ever hope to manage. Not all of the notes will make it to this site and the many planned illustrations will slowly be forthcoming. What is growing here is the record of the heritage of those arts in which we all are involved.
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