Han kengai
The "Semi-cascade" bonsai style. Simulates a tree subject to harsh winds, where the branches and trunk of a tree are swept to one side but not fully weeping.
Semi-cascade Style (Han Kengai)
The trunk descends below the rim of the pot but not below the bottom of the pot. Representing a tree growing over riverbanks from a rock-outcrop, where the branches grow almost horizontally over the water surface.
HAN KENGAI semi-cascade
SHIDARE-ZUKURI weeping
BUNJIN literati form
NEGARI exposed root form
SEKJOJU root over rock
ISHI SEKI planted on rock
SOKAN twin-trunk
SANKAN triple-trunk
KABUDACHI multiple-trunk ...
Cascade-style, or Kengai, bonsai are modeled after trees which grow over water or on the sides of mountains. The apex, or tip of the tree in the Semi-cascade-style, or Han Kengai, bonsai extend just at or beneath the lip of the bonsai pot; ...
The apex, or tip of the tree in the Semi-cascade-style, or Han Kengai, bonsai extend just at or beneath the lip of the bonsai pot; the apex of a (full) cascade style falls below the base of the pot.
Two other styles that are offshoots are Dai Kengai, the formal cascade, where the first branch plunges down below the bottom of the pot, but the rest of the branching proceeds as a Formal upright, and Han Kengai, or Semi-cascade, ...
 See also: Bonsai, Japanese, Trunk, Shakan, Plant
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