Called ikadabuki (raft style), it refers to the means of setting up bonsai. It also is one of the shapes of a tree. It is also called ''ikada tsukuri'' or making an ikada raft.
Ikadabuki
Sometimes a cracked tree can survive by pointing its branches upward. The old root system can provide the branches with enough nutrients.
ikada raft
Similar in effect to netsuranari, but typically with one straight horizontal root joining the trees. This is usually accomplished by burying a larger tree horizontally and then training each branch as a separate tree.
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Ikada buki
The "raft" bonsai style. The plant is planted sideways with some of the branches showing out of the soil. These branches are the future trees. Special form of the Yosu-Ue (wood) style.
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IKADABUKI
Another obvious one: a raft planting where the original trunk lies in a straight line.
40. Ikadabuki - a traditional Japanese bonsai style; also called raft. Where the tree is laid on its side and its branches are trained vertically and arranged in a group formation.
Fallen Tree (Ikadabuki)
Flat Top (African Style) - Funnel shaped branch structure
Group Planting (Yose-uye) - Trees suggesting a forest ...
Sub-variety of this style include the Ikadabuki or the straight line Bonsai, in which the Bonsai trunk is elevated completely clear of the soil.
Sub-styles include the ikadabuki (straight line), in which the trunk is entirely out of the soil. Typically it will rest on the surface, but some can actually grow somewhat like a kengai and are slightly above the ground.
The multi-trunk style, or Ikadabuki has all the trunks growing out of one root system, and it actually is one single tree. All the trunks form one crown of leaves, in which the thickest and most developed trunk forms the top.
Commonly this style is found in a Straight-line or Ikadabuki imitating a tree trunk, ...
The Ikadabuki, or Straight Line Style keeps the trunk (at least the middle) wholly out of the soil and straight, as the name suggests.
 See also: Trunk, Style, Informal upright, Plant, Kengai
  
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