Page 25 - Tài liệu Ebook cây cảnh Bonsai and Penjing

1986 Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1990 Montréal Botanical Garden, Montréal, Québec, Canada
1996 The Margaret Grigg Nanjing Friendship Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis,
Missouri
1999 Chinese Scholar’s Garden, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
2000 LanSu Chinese Garden, Portland, Oregon
2008 The Huntington, San Marino, California

A 19th century Japanese woodcut print, American merchant delighted with miniature cherry tree,
35 x 23 cm, shows a man admiring a bonsai, possibly thinking of his wife.
JAPAN

Over centuries, many elements of Chinese civilization migrated eastward to
Japan, ranging from the concept of a pictographic alphabet to the tea ceremony.
Typically, the Japanese would embrace a Chinese model, then refine it over time

to suit their own culture’s aesthetic sensibilities. Some say this trend reached an
apex of expression with the importation of Zen Buddhism in Japan in the
fourteenth century, crystalizing during the following centuries into forms
familiar to us today. The Chinese art form of penjing is a paradigm of this trend.
Penjing arrived in Japan with other Chinese arts, then evolved into the more