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FIRST DAY’S CONCLUSIONS
The progression from one design to another was variety so different effects could be created by carefully
done rapidly and a range of designs emerged to selecting rocks and turning them to show the desired
illustrate different saikei principles. We worked on one view. The trees are between three to six years old
side at a time and only turned to view the other side and in sufficient stage of refinement to suggest older,
after we had extracted all educational value. The other mature trees. While this was an exercise of adding
side then presented a “new” design to modify and in and subtracting, if saikei is to be kept in a permanent
this manner, Jay was able to actually see what he had arrangement, the routine maintenance pruning will
read about and studied. produce increasingly attractive details.
The evolution was possible due to having a set of
carved rocks with compatible appearance with enough

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