Landscaping - Saikei
- Saikei is blending of rock, moss, gravel, grass and trees to forma natural landscape. Saikei is a fun project project and could also be only a temporary arrangement as the trees will eventually need a bigger or deeper pot. -
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Penjing Landscapes
- Tray landscapes are amongst the oldest forms of bonsai in China, Japan and Hawaii. Each is similar in many aspects but different and distinctive, too. Japan's tray landscapes are often patterned after the classical "bonkei" tray landscapes made up of muck, rock hills, sand and tiny plants. These were meant to be for temporary display. After World War II, Toshio Kawamoto coined "saikei" as another form of tray landscape that utilized a more sophisticated set of principles. -
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A Bonsai Close Up on Saikei by Pauline F. Muth
- Saikei literally means living landscape. In this form of bonsai, the artist depicts not just a tree or a forest but a full 3 dimensional landscape. In Japan the school of saikei was founded by Toshio Kawamoto after World War II -
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Saikei - Excerpts
- Excerpts taken from Miniature Living Bonsai Landscapes, The Art of Saikei by Herb Gustafson, Saikei literally translates as "planted landscape" or it is the art of the living landscape. A classic form of bonsai, it uses miniature trees, rocks, soil, water, and related vegetation such as ground cover to form replicas of gardens, deserts, landscapes, and other beauties of the natural world, evoking the visual pleasure one finds in nature. -
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