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What is Bonsai?
Bonsai is a tree or a plant growing in a container and, therefore, small size, however, fully expressing the beauty and natural form. Verbatim value Bonsai - “growing on a tray.
Difference between Bonsai and other plants growing in a pot, in that the latter is beautiful in itself.
Bonsai may have a height of no more than a foot, but have features of this tree growing on top of a mountain, or pines, clinging to a cliff. There are different styles of bonsai. Bonsai with strong sturdy stems, curved, double, triple, etc. - all you have searched from nature. In other words Bonsai is an attempt to create a natural tree in miniature. The current trend in Bonsai - a serene sense of the forest.
The first mention of Bonsai refers to the period Kamakura (1192-1333) in the records of Kasuga Shrine. The first images have appeared in the famous Bonsai scrolls priest at the time Honen. Images showing the trees in their natural form, growing in bowls, standing on the shelves. This gives ground believing that they were used as samples for comparison. Images on the scrolls were made during the period Kamakura, but the representation of events pertaining to the period Heian (794-1191), which indicates that the Bonsai appeared much earlier.
Various recording Kamakura period suggests that trees and plants were collected in fields, mountains, and then turned into bonsai. The famous No, produced an Hachi-no-ki (the plant in a pot), worked with the plants of that time such as plum, cherry and pine. It also confirms that the Bonsai came to 800-s.
It is noticed that during the Edo (1615-1867), garden plants and growing in pots, and some flowering species with colored leaves reached a special distribution of bonsai. However, the development of Bonsai that period was very small.
From increase interest to the style of the Southern Sung painting and literature at the end of Edo, Bonsai again become material for art and poetry. On the other hand, an unusually curved wood mistakenly regarded as a good bonsai. This opinion soon changed, and again began to revive the natural beauty and expressiveness of the plants.
The increasing interest in Bonsai satisfied available in a special literature and exhibitions, first held in Tokyo in 1914 in 1934. annual exhibition especially emphasized the progress of bonsai, it was organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, and continues to this day.
Bonsai said to be occupied for the wealthy, but now they are beginning to engage people of different incomes. An interest in the U.S. and other countries.