Jin, Sharimiki and Sabamiki
Among the tricks used to 'Age' a bonsai is the dead wood technique. Used to give the impression of a tree that has perhaps been struck by lightning, or suffered some other trauma long ago.
Creating a Shari Bonsai Step-by-step plan of creating an exposed section of wood on a trunk
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SHARIMIKI driftwood
TANUKI 'cheats'/form where sapling is attached to deadwood/ also known as a 'Phoenix Graft'.
HOKIDACHI broom form ...
Shari and Si Diao Carving Tool - are used for creating and enhancing the quality of deadwood display on Bonsai.
Shari : Japanese term for exposed deadwood on the trunk of a bonsai (as opposed to Jin which is a deadwood branch or protrusion).
Shari detail.
The completed image.
The needles were a little small and suggested that the tree might still be a little weak so rather than make a literati I kept everything until the tree was healthier" ...
Shari
One of the "dead wood" techniques, Shari refers to a place on the tree where bark and cambium have been stripped or peeled away, ...
Shari
One of the "dead wood" techniques. The intention is to give the tree an old and lightning damaged look. Most seen on conifers. In contrast to Jins Shari is a dead part on the trunk. (See also Jin, Sabamiki).
Sharimiki ...
"Shari" (exposed deadwood on the trunk) appears after removing branches and trimming leaves. When you are forming a big bonsai like this, always consider the total balance of the whole tree.
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Shari and Sharamiki driftwood style.
This type of style features a large piece of dead wood on the front of the trunk. Shari and Sharamiki are similar except that in Sharamiki, a larger portion of the trunk is dead.
Bonsai Glossary: shari - Bleached, driftwood area of trunk, where bark has been removed.
Bonsai Glossary: shohin - A small sized bonsai tree.
Lime Sulpher - a chemical used to whiten or bleach a section of stripped branch or trunk in order to preserve a jin or shari.
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In the natural world, the Sharikan effect can be seen mainly among large, old
conifer trees such as pine, cedar, and juniper. Over hundreds of years,
trunks damaged by strong winds, snow blankets, snow slides, or lightening ...
When finally granted by the emperor as a sign of his sharing his authority and giving rights and liberties to his subjects, the 1889 Constitution of the Empire of Japan (the Meiji Constitution) provided for the Imperial Diet (Teikoku Gikai), ...
Yew wood is dense, resists rot, and these factors are important when doing jin and shari work. Wood and cambium are nearly always vertical in nature, therefore jin will not naturally spiral around the trunk.
Deadwood on bonsai in the form of jin or shari adds not only an effective feature to a design but in the case of many old Pine and Juniper, a very realistic one as well.
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This is not a just a forest bonsai, but one with all its trees sharing the same root.
Broccoli seedlings
Besides bonsai, I am also learning many other things in the workshop. This is the first tray of broccoli seedlings I have ever potted.
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How to display?
- Specialist Japanese Bonsai chisels are used to create jins and sharis
Power Tools
- You can use smaller angle grinders and rotary cutters to make cuts ...
Struck By Lightning (Kaminari) - Bark peeled from trunk to form jins and sharis
Willow or Weeping (Shidare-zukuri) - Hanging branches
Wild Fig (Kasa-zukuri) - Umbrella shaped crown ...
The foliage on these trees, (one was a Juniper Procumbens), was wired and shaped as you would any normal Bonsai, and the trees had a deadwood shari area up along the trunk.
Small Dawn redwood made a very nice grove and a little larger (1″ to 2″ trunks) make a nice 3 tree grouping, and of course a large heavy trunk one will make a good formal upright, or one with shari up the front and some jins from the ...
All styles, except formal upright and exposed roots, may be used. But employ no jin or shari because the wood cracks and decays quickly.
Most styles are suitable for juniper bonsai. You will often see cascade styles which mimic the natural habitat of the tree, clinging to the mountainside. Sharis reflect the large sections of deadwood often observed in nature.
Because of poor soil conditions and periods of extended drought during the growing seasons, cedars growing under those conditions are naturally dwarfed, and can frequently be found with shari and jin in place, although requiring some refinement.
They may have jin or shari. They usually have a light airy feeling.
Apex: Can be living, dead or a strong bend in the trunk.
Foliage: Should be very small an sparse or compact and clustered. Conifers are most often the material of choice.
After purchasing a new home in an established neighborhood, the former owner had two junipers planted right in the middle of the yard where a nice shade tree should have gone. My son, not sharing the same interests as his old dad in bonsai, ...
A strip of bark can be removed from the trunk on the stressed side, but be careful not to strip bark from just below a branch or the foliage on that branch will die. This is called shari.
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