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DEMONSTRATIONS
Top left; Chiharu Imai, Japan
start work on a pine
Top right; Middle left and
Bottom left; Work progresses as
the tree starts to take shape
Bottom right; Refining

Other buildings provided sites for demonstrations
from Koji Hiramatsu and Chiharu Imai from Japan,
together with France’s leading bonsai master François
Jeker; another area housed the demonstrators from
the French Federation. Yet another accommodated
the annual New Talent Contest competition while the
traders, around thirty in number, were located in indi-
vidual, small open-fronted tents, reminiscent of a me-
dieval pageant and which in fine weather would have
been ideal and rather spectacular, but in such weather
Federation, the European Bonsai Association and conditions as we were experiencing, left our hearts
Bonsai Clubs International Awards of Excellence. On bleeding for the poor traders, huddled Eskimo-like
behalf of BCI, I selected a special Carpinus group, in mountains of clothes, selling their wares from icicle
owned by François Jeker, just breaking into bright encrusted tents, located on somewhat soggy ground.
green spring leaves. In her capacity as a leader within Working on some challenging collected pines, the
the European Suiseki Association, I asked Gudrun demonstrations from the Japanese were good, enter-
Benz to select a stone worthy of the BCI Award and taining and informative. For some, these demonstra-
she chose a stone belonging to Sarka Ćermakova of tions were purely visual as the only translation enjoyed
the Czech Republic. by members of the audience, was from Japanese into
French. François Jeker fulfilled our high expectations

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