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The Comprehensive History of Bonsai and the Related Arts:
an eclectic, on-going presentation and archive
so you can better appreciate your interest in this
and extend your creativity with it.


The Past and Present of What We Do


OUR  NEWEST  BOOK

THE  PAST  AND  PRESENT  OF  WHAT  WE  DO

A Short History of the Components of Bonsai


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Bonsai Book of Days Big Picture + French flag / German flag
/ Spanish flag / Itlaian flag / Brazilian flag / Netherlands flag / Japanese flag
Suggested Timeline

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Movies & TV + Spanish flag / Japanese flag / Brazilian flag / Italian flag + Paintings & Prints
Conventions
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Permanent Collections
Imperial Bonsai
Japanese Styles
Chinese Schools

John Y. Naka + Brazilian flag
Kyuzo Murata + Brazilian flag / Greek flag
Saburo Kato + Brazilian flag
Yuji Yoshimura

Teacher Lineages
Teacher Interviews
All The Plants
Less Usual Plants


Pen - Pots / and Potters
Boshanlu
Tools / Accessories
Hachi-No-Ki + Brazilian flag

All the Nations
Many Enthusiasts
Early Reports
Histories

Current Archives + Spanish flag + German flag
Older Articles + French flag On Postage Stamps Term Origins + Chinese flag / Japanese flag

NOTE: We are currently looking for digitized film and videotape recordings of teachers, exhibits, etc. to also archive.  Please contact us if you have any.

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While simple image editing such as cropping, color saturation or contrast changes have been employed
at times herein as well as some machine translation of text and, of course,
the continual use of several general or specialty search engines to hunt for text and images,
no Photoshop, LLM or any other AI technology has been used in the creation,
design or maintenance of this website.
In other words, all references in this work are genuine,
none of the text or graphics herein are machine-compiled or composited -- they are all human-generated,
a majority of them before computers were used to archive such things.
Any "data mining" for this website is done painstakingly long-hand and
usually with an on-going spreadsheet by RJB.
This is not to say that we will never use AI on this, but not right now.


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