Japanese Bonsai Terms
From BonsaiWIKI
The following terms have been adopted from Japanese to describe features, techniques, bonsai styles and bonsai sizes.
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A
- AKADAMA - a red clay, Japanese bonsai soil AKA=red DAMA=ball
- ARAKAWA - rough bark
B
- BANKAN - coiled snake style bonsai
- BONKEI tray landscape containing rocks, plants and trees and MUDMEN
- BUNJIN literati style
C
- CHOKKAN formal upright style
- CHUHIN bonsai midsize bonsai, 30-60 cm tall
D
- DAI-BONSAI bonsai over 60 cm tall
E
- EDA branches
F
- FUKINAGASHI windswept style
G
- GAFU-BONSAI bonsai under 25 cm in height (quality bonsai)
- GAFU-TEN
- GISEISHI - sacrifice branch
H
- HAGARI pinching
- HAMIZU misting of branches
- HAN KENGAI semi-cascade style
- HARIGANE wiring a tree with bonsai wire
- HOKIDACHI broom style
- HYUGA pumice
I
- IKADABUKI Raft style
- ISHISEKI root-over-rock style bonsai planted on a stone
J
K
- KABUDACHI clump style
- KANJU deciduous trees
- KANUMA kanuma a yellow, volcanic soil from Japan favored for SATSUKI azaleas
- KANSUI watering
- KARUSU callus or cicatrisation of wounds
- KATAMARU lignification (hardening off)
- KATAEDA one-sided branching
- KATANE one-sided root system
- KEISEISO - cambium
- KENGAI cascade style
- KETOTSHUCHI peat moss
- KIKIEDA character branch one of the branches that defines the focal point of the bonsai
- KIFU-BONSAI bonsai between 20-40 cm tall
- KOKUFU-TEN
- KUSAMONO Accent plantings or companion plantings
M
- MAME-BONSAI bonsai under 7cm tall
- ME buds
- METSUMI pinching out buds
- MIMONO fruiting bonsai
- MINI-BONSAI bonsai 7-10 cm tall
- MISHO - bonsai grown from seed
- MIZUGOE - Inorganic fertilizer dissolved in water
- MIZUSUI - waterline or lifeline - living portion of the trunk as on a Juniper
- MOYOGI informal upright style
N
- NEAGARI exposed root style
- NEBARI trunkbase surface roots
- NEBUSE pruning the roots
- NETSURANARI raft style sinuous, root-connected
O
- OMONO-BONSAI Large bonsai, 60-90 cm tall
P
- PENJING landscape planting
S
- SABAMIKI hollow trunk style
- SAIKEI landscape planting with stones and trees but no mudmen
- SAKUFU-TEN
- SANKAN triple-trunk style bonsai
- SASHIKI - bonsai grown from cuttings
- SASHIEDA - long branch which defines the directional movement
- SEKJOJU root-over-rock style
- SENSEI Teacher, professor, master
- SHAKAN slant style
- SHARI deadwood on the trunk
- SHARIMIKI driftwood style
- SHIDARE-ZUKURI weeping style
- SHOHIN bonsai under 25 cm tall
- SHOTSUCHI sand
- SOKAN twin-trunk style
- SUIBAN shallow water tray for suiseki display lacking drainage holes
- SUISEKI viewing stone
T
- TACHIAGARI
- TAIKAN-TEN
- TAMAHI - ball-shaped cakes of Organic fertilizer
- TANUKI Phoenix graft
- TOKONOMA - alcove, the traditional Japanese Formal Display space
- TORIKI - bonsai created by layering or dividing
- TSUCHI - bonsai soil
- TSUGIKI - grafted bonsai
