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 (Fukinagashi)
The trees in this style lean to one side with all the branches on the side to which this tree is slanting.
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.
Windswept
Windswept style should have roots arranged with the heaviest root away from the lean, figure 12.
Figure 12. Windswept with good rootage.
The windswept style represents a tree's struggle with its elements. It is challenging for the artist to try to convincingly recreate the life and death struggle in his tree, ...
A bonsai in the windswept style represents a very common occurrence in nature. If you have ever been in the mountains, for example, or on cliffs by the sea, where prevailing winds lash at the trees, you will have seen how they react to such stress.
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).
The more common Bonsai styles that fit into the advanced, or Bonsai enthusiast’s category would included Fukinagashi - the windswept style, Bankan the twisted style and Bunjin the literati Bonsai style.
The windswept style is also a good example of trees that must struggle to survive. The branches as well as the trunk grow to one side as though the wind has been blowing the tree constantly in one direction.
Like most bonsai trees, the windswept style attempts to emulate nature's effects in miniature.
Its trunk is slanted, as if grown in an environment where the wind tends to blow more strongly in one direction than another.
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).
Gi sei shi (Gi sei eda) ...
Shaping
- Your bonsai rosemary will look best in Formal & Informal Upright styles. They can also look great in cascade and windswept styles.
The slanting style, on the other hand, is meant to evoke a natural tree that is leaning or toppling because of strong winds, or a storm. The windswept style is meant to evoke thoughts of a tree on a mountain peak, whipped by strong winds, and so on.
 See also: Style, Windswept, Bonsai, Trunk, Tree
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