Bonsai, Japanese the potted plant. Japanese traditional culture

/"Bonsai".
Bonsai is the horticultural art of miniature potted and plants.
It has been grown for a long time as they appear in nature.

The difference between the Bonsai and the potted plant of horticulture.
The potted plant appreciates the plant itself. The bonsai expresses large nature by the tree.
The bonsai can draw a view into a bowl. We make the bonsai small, and I complete it so that I may be visible to a big tree.
Since the bonsai is lengthways reared compared with a potted plant, we feel the passage of time. The bonsai for hundreds of years

"The Omiya Bonsai Art Museum, Saitama" http://www.bonsai-art-museum.jp/en/

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"Omiya Bonsai trees village" https://www.city.saitama.jp/006/014/010/003/013/p047067.html

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"SHUNKAEN Bonsai Museum" http://www.kunio-kobayashi.com/en/index.html