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You can determine the style your bonsai takes on, this is what bonsai is all about. Study the basic shape of the tree, compare that to the 'accepted styles' and work with your bonsai over time, refining it. Learn to use the trees natural growing energy to encourage growth in the most important areas you desire.
We will list below several examples and brief descriptions of possible styles or you can research your tree and its natural growing style (as it would grow normally in nature), or you can use your bonsais own special attributes and design a style that shows them off.
CHOKKAN - FORMAL UPRIGHT FORM - Upright, straight - The trunk should have an even taper from roots to apex.
MOYOGI - INFORMAL UPRIGHT FORM - Trunk bends and curves, the trunk bends and changes direction due to situations as such in nature (such as sun blocked by other trees or buildings)
SHAKAN - SLANTING FORM - Such as exposed to strong winds, possibly at an angle slanting away from a prevailing wind
FUKINAGASHII - WIDSWEPT FORM - Constant exposure to winds coming from one direction, usually have straight trunks with only the top portion curved over
SABAMIKI - Split trunk
SHARIMIKI - DRIFTWOOD - Bark of trunk stripped away resembling natural die-back
NEJKAN - TWISTED TRUNK - Spiral shaped trunk
HOKIDACHI - BROOM FORM
KENGAI - CASCADE - The trunk line will fall below the horizontal, and trunk tip as low as the bottom of the pot or lower.
HAN KENGAI - SEMI-CASCADE - Nearly horizontal position, Leans over to one side from 45 to 60 degrees from the vertical, as low as horizontal or the rim of the pot.
NEAGARI - EXPOSED ROOT FORM - Exposed roots become part of the trunk area
SEKIJOJU - ROOT OVER ROCK - Roots grow over and around rock to soil
ISHI SEKI - Planted on rock
ISHIZUKI - ROOT IN ROCK - Tree grows out of rock crevace
SOKAN - TWIN TRUNK - Two trunks beginning at ground level
SAMBON YOSE - Triple trunk (Actually 3 plants placed in one pot)
KABUDACHI OR KABUBUKI- MULTIPLE TRUNK - Can be created by combining several trees together and allowing them to grow together
NETSUNAGARI - Root connected
YOSE UYE - GROUP PLANTING - From 5 trees and up in one pot, must use odd number of trees
SAI-KEI - Landscape planting
SHARI - Deadwood on trunk
JIN - Deadwood branch
NEBARI - Trunk base/ Surface roots
BUNJIN - LITERATI - Tree with foilage only at top
YAMADORI - Collected material.
TOKONOMA - Traditional Japanese display area.
TANUKI - CHEATS FORM WHERE A SAPLING IS ATTACHED TO DEADWOOD, ALSO KNOWN AS A PHOENIX GRAFT
IKADABUKI - RAFT STYLE - A tree which has been blown over, allowing branches to take root and grow into seperate trees.
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