This Tanuki bonsai was put together by Vic Harris of Erin Pottery using a Japanese Larch/Larix kaempferi.
TANUKI 'cheats'/form where sapling is attached to deadwood/ also known as a 'Phoenix Graft'.
HOKIDACHI broom form
KENGAI cascade ...
Tanuki style.
In this style, a piece of dead wood is attached to the tree. A channel is then carved into the dead wood to allow the live tree to grow through it. This creates an interesting composite Shari or Sabamiki.
Mike Sullivan, a South Florida bonsai artist, created this tanuki from a small juniper and a piece of dead buttonwood (not his.)
To find a tree like this in nature, you would have to climb mountains! ...
For example, 四月一æ-¥ would normally be read as shigatsu tsuitachi ("April 1st"), but as a family name it is read watanuki ("unpadded clothes"), because April 1st is the traditional date to switch from winter to summer clothes.
 See also: Bonsai, Japanese, Trunk, Graft, Species
  
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