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Photo, Tom Elias
Host officials from the Japan Bonsai Taikan-ten organizing
Committee, the City of Kyoto, the Kyoto Newspaper, and the KBS
Kyoto Broadcasting Company join Nippon Bonsai Association
President Fukuda Jiro in cutting the ribbon and formally opening
the 2013 Taikan-ten.
Photo, Tom Elias
A special exhibit of a beautiful natural chrysanthemum stone
from the collection of the Meiji Shrine, Tokyo.

Photo, Owen Reich Photo, Owen Reich
Bonsai considered for the Prime Minister’s Award are grouped Many exhibts were accompanied by shitakusa and kusamono.
together for the second round of judging.

very year during the last week of No-
vember, bonsai collectors and profes-
sionals converge on the city of Kyoto for
the Taikan-tenjikai which translates to
EGrandview Bonsai Exhibition. The event
has been running since 1980 and is considered
the second best exhibition after the Kokufu-ten
in Tokyo. There are a number of reasons I prefer
this event over the National Exhibition. Many of
these will be explained in detail below with a bit
of “proof” in the form of photos.
While apprenticing in Japan at Fujikawa Kouka-
en in Osaka, I’ve had the privilege to attend three
Taikan-ten events. Each year, it’s a mad dash to
prepare bonsai for the vendor area and during the
event maintain the exhibits. While challenging,
the experience is always worth the effort as the
diversity of species and styles at this event never
fails to impress. Unlike the Kokufu-ten which
has the equivalent of breed standards like the
Photo, Owen Reich
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