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THE ART OF BONSAI 23

Kadus!ti .ltmipe.-us c!tine11sis in a perfect Sankan form, with
three trunks clearly visible.

Trees with several trunks
These are literally trees which have sev-
eral trunks growing from a single root.
The following are examples.

SOKAN: the simplest form, a double
trunk growing from a forked base.
SANKAN: not two, but three trunks
growing out of one stock.
In these two cases, the size of the
trunks growing out of the base should
not be identical. In the Sokan style one of
the trunks is thicker than the other: this
is the 'father', the other trunk being the
'son'. In the Sankan style two trunks are
Netsw·a,a.-i
larger than the other, and these are the
'mother' and 'father', with the smaller
trunk the 'son'.
KADUSHI: a series of trunks with
multiple branches growing from a single
root, branched like the types described
above, but usually with an odd number
of trunks.
IKADA BUKI: a variation of the above
known as 'raft' bonsai, but with the
trunk lying just below the surface of the
soil and the branches, which rise verti-
cally, giving the illusion of a group of
I ., trees planted side by side.
)~~~/~ NETSURANARI: this is a spreading,
'rambling' shape, obtained by growing
various trunks from a single, connected
root base lying on the surface of the soil,
Korabuki
(turtle back) again giving the impression of several
trees planted side by side.