A Windswept Juniper
A bonsai in the windswept style represents a very common occurrence in nature.
Bonsai Trees - Windswept Style
By Ruth Morgan
Constant wind from one side creates this windswept style ...
Windswept Style
Bonsai Styles, some pointers
The problem with providing a set of styles for folk who are new to the hobby is that it is easy to lead them to believe that, if their tree doesn't conform to one of the styles, it's a bad bonsai, ...
Windswept Style (FUKINAGASHI)
Windswept, with the typical branch arrangement blowing to one side. Conform the outline in a triangle.
Branches are extremely forced by wind. Indicate by bending branches at the base.
Windswept style of Bonsai
Adventurous people or people that want a less typical style choose to have a bonsai tree that does not look too pretty and orderly.
Windswept:
Coastal areas of heavy wind cause a tree to lean away from the wind loosing windward branches and the others flowing away as if like ribbons on the other side.
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Windswept (Fukinagashi)
This style simulates the effect of sustained exposure to strong winds.
Windswept Bonsai style
Fukinagashi
The windswept style is also a good example of trees that must struggle to survive.
Windswept
Windswept style should have roots arranged with the heaviest root away from the lean, figure 12.
Figure 12. Windswept with good rootage.
Windswept Form
The windswept form is one of the most difficult forms to portray as a bonsai though is often one attempted by beginners for its dramatic features.
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Windswept
Fukinagashi
This style simulates the effect of sustained exposure to strong winds.
Windswept, one of my favorite style.
Michael says:
I would love to start getting into these types of landscapes. I can't put into words how amazing I think they are.
WINDSWEPT. The windswept style represents a tree's struggle with its elements.
Windswept Style (Fukinagashi)
The trees in this style lean to one side with all the branches on the side to which this tree is slanting.
Windswept (Fukinagashi)
In this style, each of the branches appears to be "swept" to one side, as if being blown by a strong wind.
The windswept style looks like the bonsai tree has been beset by strong winds. It looks a bit unruly and beautifully unkempt. These are most of the common styles that bonsai plants are usually trained to be.
The "windswept" bonsai style. One of the basic styles. This windswept style simulates the effect of extreme exposure to strong winds. (See also section Bonsai styles in Encyclopedia).
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The "Windswept" bonsai style. A bonsai tree which gives the appearance of being exposed to harsh winds for prolonged periods, causing foliage to form in a windswept pattern. One of the basic styles.
Han kengai ...
- Windswept - Medium depth rectangular, rough-textured and unglazed
- Cascade/Semi-Cascade - Deep square, hexagonal or octagonal
- Literati - Medium depth circular, inward pointing lip, square, hexagonal, unglazed ...
fukinagashi Windswept
Similar to the slanting style, but all of the branches are swept in one direction as though it were growing in a place with a strong constant prevailing wind.
kengai cascade ...
Gnarled, faux-windswept trunks, with sparse leaves to full-flowering miniature blossoming trees dot the historic record.
The Chinese artists often went one step beyond nature and shaped their trees into replicas of real animals and imaginary icons.
Slanting or Windswept - This style hopes to recreate the appearance of a tree that is grown in a windy or shaded location. The trunk may be leaning straight or may have bends and twists similar to the informal upright style.
Fukinagashi The Windswept Bonsai Technique
Just like all Bonsai trees, Fukinagashi - the windswept technique attempts to replicate Mother Nature’s natural effect, but of course in miniature.
windswept
over a rock
Pruning and wiring
Old branches harden and are very brittle, so basically shape rosemary by pruning. Wire only while the branches are young, up to about 2 years.
Fukinagashi - a traditional Japanese bonsai style; also called windswept. This is a tree that has its trunk and branches swept back in one direction; illustrating a tree exposed to very forceful winds.
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Some other similar styles include Bunjingi or Literati Style (a few branches at the top of a long slanted trunk, usually in a small, shallow pot), and Fukinagashi Style (Windswept Style, with all the branches coming off one side of the trunk).
Slanting trunk, windswept or literati can all fall into shakan design. A leaning bonsai for instance, we know, will not fall over. The tree can be balanced with a root on the opposite side, keeping the tree from falling over.
The coastal tea tree grows on the exposed windswept sand dunes of southern NSW and Victoria. Its environment creates wonderful gnarled, twisted trunks and branches. This bonsai has been grown from nursery stock for the past eight years.
Windswept (especially junipers, pines, myrtle);
Cascade (many varieties, especially juniper, elephant's food, flowering types);
Broom-style (especially, elm and zelkova);
Literati/abstract (many trees, especially junipers and pines); ...
chokkan (formal upright), moyogi (informal upright), shakan (slanting), fukinagashi (windswept), han-kengai (semi-cascade), kengai (cascade), sharimiki (driftwood), hokidachi (broom), benjingi (literati), sekijoju (root-on-rock), ...
These windswept and gnarled trees may live for up to a century. They commanded the interest and respect of the Japanese centuries ago. Originally, naturally dwarfed trees were collected, re-potted and nurtured.
This phenomenon is often seen in a windswept bonsai style. Kataeda in a curved upright trunk and general trunks is prone to lose grace in many cases because the tree shape lacks harmony and is conspicuously unnatural in appearance.
Premna is a perfect species for the expressionistic styles—literati, windswept or raft - and appeals to enthusiasts who like the natural jin and shari.
Right: Shohin Premna. Note the regular sized leaf at the bottom.
The five basic bonsai styles are formal upright, informal upright, slanting (or windswept), semi-cascade and cascade. All have their own individual beauty and serenity. They are :
1. Formal Upright
2. Informal Upright
3. Slanting
4. Cascade
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New shoots need to be shortened only a little. The Black olive - Bucida is generally windswept. The plant's growth changes direction at every internode making a bend of 25 to 35 degrees. Branch shape can be achieved by pruning alone.
When you look at bonsai - from the standard "chokkan" or "upright" style to the "fukinagashi" or "windswept" style to the "ishitzuki" or "rock-dweller," you will see the results of hours upon hours, and indeed years upon years of work.
Select a style that suite the type of tree that you have selected. For example, you will not find an Azalea in a windswept or cascade style, so it is best not to select these styles. Rather use a broom style, or other appropriate style.
Slanted trees are also good for creating more advanced bonsai styles called "windswept." ...
In nature, succulents follow such bonsai styles as broom, informal upright, slanted, prostrate, semicascade, windswept, literati, and grotesque.
3. the number of branches and where they grow out from is less important to make this shape compared to other similar styles such as upright and windswept style.
A Criterion was established for six styles, Formal Upright Informal Upright, Slanting, Full Cascade, Semi-Cascade and Windswept. From this work critique forms were made to use when looking at the tree. Eight categories were determined for evaluation.
Rosmarinus officinalis forms itself into a striking formal upright with minimum effort. The prostrate varieties can be formed into everything from informal upright cascade to windswept.
These techniques are basic to most and come even before other techniques peculiar to different styles and that suggest the life story of the tree, and evoke the environment surrounding the tree (cliff face, mountain top, open field, windswept ridge ...
In New Zealand, it was found to be particularly suitable for windswept locations along the coast. Chinese Elms are frequently used in bonsai; they are considered a good choice for beginners owing to their high tolerance of pruning.
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