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One entire wall was filled with about 1000 bonsai
made by school children. This belies the notion that
Bonsai in Japan is a dying art. It is evident that great
efforts are being made to bring the art to youngsters.
Also impressive was the sale or vendor area which
had a great collection of ready bonsai, some of them
of exhibition quality, tools, containers and other ac-
cessories.

Demonstrations:
Demonstrations were conducted mainly in three
areas of the Saitama Super Arena, the Shisho-ten stage
where most of the international headliners had their
demonstrations, the Exhibition Hall stage and the
Toiro studio. Many of the demonstrations overlapped
and so it was impossible to cover all of them. The
material for the demonstrations were excellent pieces
Top left; Mr. Taiga Urushibata
from Japan worked on a Taxus of pre-worked trees which were then left to grow. The
cuspidata, jin and shari being a demo trees for the international headliners mainly
prominent feature of the tree. came from Mr. Kimura’s bonsai garden. He personally
Top right;The finished Taxus took care to see that all the masters were satisfied with
cuspidata bonsai. their material.
Middle left; Juan Andrade The director for the demonstrations was Mr.
(Costa Rica) from Aichen Masahiko Kimura who supervised the preparations
Bonsai Nursery, worked on
a five-needle pine involving and introduced the demonstrators on stage. The
branch bending and wiring. material being worked on were mostly pines and
The final tree looked good. junipers. All demonstrators showed their skills in
Bottom; Werner Busch designing, styling, wiring and transformed the trees
(Germany) worked on a five- into potential masterpieces. In addition to pines and
needle pine which involved a junipers a few deciduous trees were also worked upon
fair bit of wiring.
such as a massive Satsuki Azalea by Mr. Shigeo Isobe
(Japan) and a Wisteria by Mr. Michael Siow Chee
Long from Malaysia. Additionally a beautiful Saikei
of Japanese black pine trees with beautiful rocks was
created by Jyoti and Nikunj Parekh from India. Mr.
Quinquan Zhao of China created a penjing with
five white pines and rocks he had got from China.
Another wonderful and informative demonstration
was presented by Mr. Hiroshi Takeyama (Japan) who
created a forest containing about 45 trident maples
all defoliated. The placement of trees to create depth

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