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A Premonition

of Bonsai

A Dream Set in Motion

By Alessandro Bonardo, Italy

Photos by Marco Bonardo and Massimo Bandera, Italy

off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to I t was on April 11, 2010, the day when for the first

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the
time, I put my hands on a bonsai.
great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by
It was a very ordinary basic course in which they
the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes
taught how to care for the small plants from the
market, which other than the label, had nothing
scare away the timid adventurers.” to do with bonsai or Japan.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sure it may sound strange, but even then I realized
that the bonsai was much more than just a hobby.
The interest for this art began when I could still count
my age on my fingers; while hiking near Vinadio, in Colle della Lombarda and Colle Maladecia in particular,
I was fascinated by the very old forms of larch and stone pine.
In bonsai, I first glimpsed the possibility of transferring the emotion of those places to a balcony in my house.
I was eight or nine years old when I applied for registration to the Scuola d’Arte Bonsai, but the response was
anything but pleasant, "bonsai is not for children, wait until you are at least twelve years old."
So I did, but did I not take it well.
While waiting I began to acquire a taste for miniature trees from various catalogs, the most significant of which,
was "Bonsai Masterpieces" a publication of the Nippon Bonsai Association.

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