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JAPAN -- INCOMPLETE IDENTIFICATIONS


The following are graphic images which have not been identified enough to warrant inclusion with the other portrayals.  Due to the special nature of these subjects, for educational purposes we have included here the entire image as known to us.  (Once identified, only the dwarf potted tree portion will be used.)  Whatever description that has been received from the source and/or has been determined by RJB based on other portrayals is given here.  We need your assistance in further placing these and determining their makers.  Also let us know if you have additional details about the other portrayals -- not all of them are totally identified either.  Send as many details as possible to rjb@phoenixbonsai.com .

This Page Last Updated October 7, 2001



 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 Town of dwarf tree masters, 17th cent  (1)
 18th cent. (2)

 
 Dwarf trees (& ikebana?) in Japanese house, 18th cent  (3)
  Japanese gardener/dwarf tree merchant, 18th cent  (3)

 
Dwarf trees in marketplace? 18th cent?  (4)
Dwarf tree in pot, literati style, Edo period  (4)

"No. 104 -- Pruning the Pine Tree.   From Banreki"  (5)
 Samurai with dwarf flowering plum and pine in pot.  (6)

 
 
 (7)
  


 
NOTES

1.  Personal e-mail to RJB from Tomas Melo of Slovakia, April 17, 2001.  A Chinese portrayal actually?

2.  Personal e-mail to RJB from Tomas Melo, October 3, 2001.  From  The art of chinese gardening by Zdenek Hrdlicka. 

3.  Personal e-mail to RJB from Tomas Melo, March 27, 2001.  Pictures "found in library." 

4.  Personal e-mail to RJB from Tomas Melo, April 27, 2001.  Pictures from Bonsai Slovakia 2001. 

5.  Cover of American Bonsai Society Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 1968.  Smaller copy on pg. 3 for article "Japanese Bonsai - 1912" by Marcus B. Huish, LL.B.  Our researches have not yet found who or what Banreki was.

6.  Personal e-mail to RJB from Chris Cochrane, December 23, 1999.  With the bamboo-decorated screen behind, this is an interesting depiction of the "three friends of winter."

7.   Personal e-mail to RJB from Tomas Melo, May 17, 2001.  From a Czech bonsai magazine.

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