Kengai Bonsai Style - Cascade
One of the most popular Bonsai styles is the cascade style, known for it’s beauty this technique is very much desired, but also more complicated to achieve.
Kengai (Cascade)
In nature, a tree growing near a cliff subject to heavy snows, avalanches and wind may assume this inverted position.
Those forces are not generally available to the bonsai artist to imitate, however.
Kengai
In the cascade style the trunk starts by growing upward from the soil, then turns downward abruptly, and reaches a point below the bottom edge of the container.
Kengai
A tree living in the nature on a steep cliff can bend downward as a result of several factors, like snow or falling rocks. These factors cause the tree to grow downward.
KENGAI
The difference between this style and the semi-cascade is that here the trunk must fall below the base of the pot. All other criteria are the same.
Han-Kengai
A traditional Japanese bonsai style; also called semi-cascade. Where the
branches and trunk of a tree are swept down to one side, but not below
the top lip of the container; illustrating a tree subject to violent winds and
weather.
kengai cascade
An unusual form where the trunk and branches arch and 'cascade' over the edge of the pot. Usually planted in a deep pot to give balance to its unusual form.
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Kengai (Cascade)
The cascade style is among the more beautiful and desired, but also more difficult to achieve. The trunk grows down below the level of the container, often twisting as it does so.
Kengai (Ken gai ju kei)
The "cascade" bonsai style. One of the basic styles. The trunk starts growing upward, but then turns downward and reaches a point below the base of the pot. (See also section Bonsai styles in Encyclopedia).
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Kengai (Ken gai ju kei)
The "Cascade" bonsai style. This style resembles a waterfall or cascade and simulates a tree on the edge of a cliff subjected to violent winds.
The Kengai (Cascade) bonsai is a beautiful bonsai style and needs special techniques in its creation. I hope the following instructions will provide you with the information you need to complete a bonsai in the cascade style.
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GAITO-KENGAI can be likened to a tree growing on a mountain top, with part of it hanging over the cliff. Almost wind swept.
Cascade (Kengai)
These trees give the appearance of a waterfall or cascade of foliage, which spills, over the pot and down toward the ground and thus the name.
CASCADE or KENGAI design
As in semi cascade, we now blend The Main branch or trunk completely down, past the bottom of the pot. If the trunk is used for cascading it should bend over the rim of the pot and very sharply downwards.
Cascade Style (Kengai)
The Cascade style is easily recognized as the trunk dips below the bottom of the pot. This style represents a tree that is growing on a cliff top and has that cascade over and below the precipice of the cliff top.
Full Cascade (Kengai)
This style portrays a tree that is hanging over the edge of a cliff. The growing tip of a cascade bonsai reaches below the base of a container.
Cascade-style, or Kengai, bonsai are modeled after trees which grow over water or on the sides of mountains.
Cascade (Kengai) The impression of Kengai is a waterfall of foliage spilling over the container and down to the floor.
KENGAI cascade
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
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On the other hand, take kengai style for instance, the trunk of the bonsai
plant leans in a particular direction. If in the opposite direction the roots are
well developed, then you achieve an overall balanced bonsai. In contrast, if ...
K: Kabaduchi - Japanese term for clump style bonsai
kengai - Japanese term for cascade style. See also han-kengai
L: Lava
layering - a method of propagating a tree by ring-girdling the trunk and inducing roots to grow from the wound.
Cascade and semi-cascade - Kengai and han-kengai
Literati - Bumjin-gi style
Traditionally, juniper, spruce and pine are used in this elegant style.
This is a beautiful species of tree which tolerates a wide range of conditions and is a good species for the cascade or kengai style where the branches in the trunk grow out over the container and below the horizontal edge.
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 See also: Cascade, Style, Trunk, Bonsai, Plant
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