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Root Over Rock Form English Elm by Harry Harrington
Literati
Also known as the bunjin form, the Literati takes its name from an elite class

of Chinese scholars who practised in the arts. Their paintings had abstract,
calligraphic forms that depicted trees growing in mountainous landscapes.
Therefore these trees owe their distinctive shapes to harsh climatic
conditions, they have long slender trunks that take many twists and turns and are
the principal feature of the form. Bonsai in the literati form have very few
branches that start very high up the trunk, often having just enough foliage to
allow the tree to survive.