This style has a long flowing often contorted trunk line, with branches reduced to a minimum. In Japan, the literati style is known as bunjin-gi (文人木). (Bunjin is a translation of the Chinese phrase wenren meaning “scholars practiced in the [...]
I do not agree when someone says ‘if we cannot make a good bonsai from a poor material, at least we can make literati‘. To create good literati bonsai, one needs to understand the philosophy, the aesthetic knowledge of lines and the skill to [...]
