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by Lawrence LeClaireFog City Bonsai October 2009 Issue
Sep 29th: Here is your online version of Fog City Bonsai for October 2009. This issue features: Your Bonsai Education October Meeting Announcement - Fruiting and Flowering Trees with Tim Kong The Geezer Crew Moving Jin Bonsai Notes for October Upcoming Events, Meetings, and Announcements Your Fall Bonsai Care Calendar - BSSF Download Fog City Bonsai October 2009 (0.748 MB)  read more »
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by Eric SchraderJohn Boyce Demonstrates the Bunjin Style
Hinoki
Jan 18th: January Meeting Notes BSSF started the new-year off with a talk from longtime member John Boyce about the intricacies of the bunjin treatment. Bunjin, also called literati- after the intellectual elite who lived simple lives of contemplation, are elegant and deceptively simple compositions that rely on few elements to portray much. While there are many trees in the wild that can serve as models for the designs of bunjin bonsai, for many people it is also helpful to study the forms of trees that the literati created in scroll paintings both from Japan and China...  read more »
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by Eric SchraderJohn Naka on Bunjin - Gi - Bunjin Style
Japanese Black Pine Bunjin w/ scroll
Dec 29th: Notes From John Y. Naka (originally printed in Golden Statements, March/April 1993) Introduction to Bujin Style A bonsai style commonly called bunjin style in America or simply bunjin. However, one should know the meaning and understanding of bunjin. Bunjin means literary man, man of letters or literati. Opposite of bunjin is bujin which means soldier or military man, or in the old days in Japan it would mean a Samurai or Bushi...  read more »
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