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Top left; An informal upright specimen of Pseudocydonia sinensis.
Top right and middle left; The deciduous Stewartia monadelpha
with its spreading trunk at the base make an exceptional bonsai.
Lower right; Goyomatsu or Japanese White pine, Pinus parviflora, is
a favorite among Japanese bonsai artists.

This year, we attended the Part 2 of the exhibition
so we could also see the fine exhibition of stones that
the Nippon Suiseki Association was sponsoring, also
in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. These two
exhibits coincides with each other in the same build-
ing. One hundred and seventy trees were displayed
in the second part of the exhibition. The larger trees
were located on the lower floor while the mid-size and
smaller shohin trees were displayed on the corridor
and floor above the main exhibit. There is an admis-
sion fee to enter the exhibition.
If you can only afford, financially or time-wise, to
visit one exhibition of bonsai in Japan, this is the one.
It has the finest examples of classical bonsai in Japan.
If possible, avoid the weekend and holidays. Go early
in the morning when it first opens and you will have
more room to view the trees. The major exhibit areas

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