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to world peace’. The inauguration was graced by the
presence of His Imperial Highness Prince Akishino-
miya and Princess Akishino-miya. The Prince in his
speech touched upon the history of Bonsai art. Mr.
Nikunj Parekh, Director of WBFF - India region, in
his speech delineated the history of WBFF and spoke
about the relevance of bonsai in bringing all commu-
nities of the world together as well the spiritual aspects
it brings to our lives. Mr. Jiro Fukuda the Chairman of
WBFF introduced the headliners who were uniformly
clad in black T-shirts signifying unity of all regions of
the world.
A commemorative demonstration was present-
ed by Mr. Masahiko Kimura. Contrary to his usual
style of creating bonsai with dramatic deadwood in
his demonstrations, Mr. Kimura created a beautiful
mountain landscape which he said was inspired by the
Wulingyuan mountains in China. The rock itself was
stunning, created from two pieces of soft featherstone
which were cemented together and carved to create
hollows and crevices. Cavities were pre-created in the
rock formation and wires to hold the plants were ce-
mented in place. Mr. Kimura planted fifteen Shimpaku
Junipers in the cavities, all of which were air layered
a year ago and pre-trained to the desired shape. Mr.
Kimura said he chose to demonstrate the mountain
landscape as it was something everyone could easily
create by themselves. Mr. Kimura was ably assisted by
two of his apprentices while Mr. Ryan Neil enlivened
the atmosphere with his excellent translation from
Japanese to English. The resulting rock landscape
turned out to be a masterpiece, perfect in all respects
and was later displayed in the exhibit area.

Masahiko Kimura
presented the

commemorative
demonstration

on the first day.
He created a
masterpiece with

15 Shimpaku
junipers planted
on a massive stone

mountain. The trees
were previously
air layered and

shaped.

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