It’s possible I don’t have the patience, and definite I don’t have the skills, but it’s still hard to imagine a job that appears more relaxing, and bequeaths its bearers with more beauty, than that of a bonsai master.
A bonsai master
Photographs from a small group of islands
Juan says
Lee,
This is a great picture! Did you take it yourself? If so, could you give some background on it? I recently started a Bonsai blog, so I’m curious to learn more 🙂
Lee says
Thanks Juan.
Yes, I took the picture. It was taken in a bonsai garden in a local park. I didn’t chat with him on the day I took the photo, but I have in the past. Then he talked us through some of the techniques and aesthetics of bonsai, such as shape and colouring. Really interesting stuff.
Jason says
great photos!! love your eye!! keep up the great work! ganbatte ne!
Lee says
Cheers Jason!
winnie says
The Bonsai is so beautiful!!
The Bonsai master is great so do your picture!! 🙂
Lee says
They are. The garden has a wide variety of bonsai. Some of them over 300 years old. And luckily the master is happy for people to take photographs.
Matt says
That is an incredible tree. Lovely shot.
Lee says
Cheers Matt. It is. One of many there. It’s a place I could happily visit every week.
Roger says
I remember walking through the streets of Shiki late at night and passed a small patch where vegetables were being grown and all around the perimeter there were bonsai behind a 1ft high ‘fence’. Here in the UK this would just not happen. Or survive!
Lee says
No, sadly it wouldn’t…
willy says
Curious, the other day I was reading about Tanegashima in Kagoshima prefecture, Kyushu, which is famous for being the site of Japan’s rocket launching facilities. It is also famous for its blade making, in particular the “tanebasami” scissors that are apparently preferred by bonsai enthusiasts…
The islanders also speak with a remnant Kyoto dialect, in contrast to the predominant Kyushu dialects, due to some episode of some people being exiled there from Kyoto a long time ago or some such thing.
Nice pic Lee, as usual.
Cheers,
Willy
Lee says
Cheers Willy.
Never heard about that before. Really interesting. Particularly in regards the dialect.
Aniruddha says
Very beautiful…I recently got one for myself and love it…
jamie smith says
I thought that was plastic tree.
Olga007.it says
what does the inscription on your painting mean?