Bunjin The Literati Bonsai Style
Another really popular Bonsai style is the Bunjun or literati. This simple looking technique, with a slight, angled trunk and modest branches is surprisingly difficult to recreate.
Bunjingi
Literati form
――Tasteful elegance
The Bunjingi bonsai emulates trees growing in the wasteland soil of sandy
and barren areas. The trunks are thin from the bottom to top, the branches ...
Bunjin (Literati)
One of the most popular styles is the bunjin or literati.
The simple style, with a thin, slanted trunk and few branches is deceptively difficult.
Bunjin-gi/Literati
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Jack E. Billet
This type of tree is more of a feeling than a style. Most of the other styles, or even no style at all, can be used for Bunjin. It often deviates from the accepted guidelines.
Bunjingi
In nature this style of tree grows in areas densely populated by many other trees and competition is so fierce that the tree can only survive by growing taller then all others around it.
Bunjin (Bunjingi)
"Literati Style". This style of bonsai is generally unconventional, often breaking well established rules.
Bunjingi or Bunjin
The "literati" bonsai style. One of the basic styles. The idea behind Bunjingi is that in nature the tree, under adverse environmental conditions, has found its way to survive, being forced to contortions and unnormal shapes.
bunjingi literati
upright or informally upright trunk bare of branches except at the top, characterized by a tasteful simple elegance. hokidachi broom broom style trees have an upright trunk, with branches evenly fanned out.
BUNJINGI
This style is reminiscent of ancient pines, which tend to shed their lower branches as they get old.
It gets its name from the calligraphic style of ancient Chinese artists.
Bunjingi - literati
Ishitsuki - over rock
POTS:
Pots come in a variety of shapes and sizes.
LITERATI/BUNJIN. I like the stark beauty of the literati (bunjin) style. The trees are amazingly elaborate and have a mind boggling beauty. I like forests too. They are beautiful and are the most realistic and natural of the styles.
Literati (Bunjin) - Free form
Pierneef - Umbrella crown
Raft (Netsuranari) - Shoots sprouting from surface roots, or roots sprouting from a fallen trunk ...
Literati Style (Bunjingi)
This style is one of the most difficult to describe and is generally considered an Artist style.
Also known as the bunjin form, the Literati takes its name from an elite class of Chinese scholars who practiced in the arts. Their paintings had abstract, calligraphic forms that depicted trees growing in mountainous landscapes.
Bunjin - a traditional Japanese bonsai style; also called literati. This is a tree that has a tall, slender trunk with foliage growing only near the top; illustrating maturity and the casting off of material things.
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Some other similar styles include Bunjingi or Literati Style (a few branches at the top of a long slanted trunk, usually in a small, shallow pot), and Fukinagashi Style (Windswept Style, with all the branches coming off one side of the trunk).
The literati style, or Bunjin-gi, bonsai is characterized by a generally bare trunk line, with branches reduced to a minimum, and typically placed higher up on a long, often contorted trunk.
Woodblock prints and Bunjinga: The school of art best known in the West is that of the ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints of the demimonde, the world of the kabuki theater and the brothel district.
The word literati is used in place of the Japanese "bunjin" which is a translation of the Chinese word "wenjen" meaning "scholars practiced in the arts".
The more common and easier to do are the cascade, windswept, slanting, informal upright, formal upright and bunjin. Beginner bonsai trees enthusiast can choose any of the styles to make their trees into.
The two basic styles of bonsai are the classic (koten) and the informal or 'comic' (bunjin).
Bud Burst - The stage when the leaves emerge from the bud break and start to unfold and separate.
Bunjin or Bunjinji - Literati style, free form style that is unexplainable, irrespective of rules of style, design, and growth.
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You have the classic or koten and the comic or bunjin. In the classic form, the base of the tree trunk is wide and narrows as you go up the tree. The opposite is true in the comic form.
See Hokidachi
bunjin - Japanese term for an educated person or literati, a tree grown in this style, usually emphasizing a thin trunk, with a lean appearance and container with rough-hewn appearance.
They range from 4 inches for a stout plant up to 10 inches for the Literati or Bunjinji style (See below). Finally there is the "Shito" bonsai which are the smallest category. They typically measure 2 inches high and are a great challenge to grow.
 See also: Bonsai, Trunk, Plant, Style, Tree
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