A regular customer came to the nursery yesterday to check out the new arrivals before everything gets shipped up to Tokyo for the Kokufu-ten. He saw the Zuisho I recently wired and immediately started jumping up and down in excitement…not because he was impressed with my work, but because he said he knew the tree from over 25 years ago! He began flipping through the Taikan-ten books and found the same Zuisho in the 6th album (printed 22 years ago). Then he frantically searched through the Kokufu-ten books and found the tree again in the 72nd album (printed 11 years ago) as it was wired by Masahiko Kimura. The picture below on the far left is the same Zuisho from the 6th annual Taikan-ten, the middle picture is from the 72nd Kokufu-ten, and the picture on the very bottom was taken after my most recent attempt to wire the tree.
Responses to “Zuisho Follow-up”
March 16th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Hi Bjorn,
You must be having a great time.
Just a thought about this type/style of tree….. Do they actually really exist in Mother Nature (in Japan or anywhere) for they are so sculpted, so triangular, so well proportioned so “un-real”. They have such massive trunks but yet the foliage and other features are somewhat still very juvenile! They seem to lack the true hallmarks of age, i.e. deadwood.
Just curious.
Cheers
Graham
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Great work bjorn, your very lucky. This could be a sign of what’s to come for you!