Giant Bonsai Trees: unlocking The Art Of Niwaki: The Ancient Japanese Art Of Pruning

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Niwaki (庭木) is the Japanese word for "garden trees". Niwaki is also a descriptive word for highly "sculpting trees".
Most varieties of plants used in Japanese gardens are called niwaki. These trees help to create the structure of the garden. Japanese gardens are not about using large range of plants, rather the objective is creating atmosphere or ambiance. The technique of niwaki is more about what to do with a tree than the tree itself. While Western gardeners enjoy experimenting with a wide range of different plants, Japanese gardeners achieve variety through training and shaping a relatively limited set of plants.
Trees play a key role in the gardens and landscapes of Japan as well as being of important spiritual and cultural significance to its people. Fittingly, Japanese gardeners have fine-tuned a distinctive set of pruning techniques meant to coax out the essential characters of niwaki. Niwaki are often cultivated to achieve some very striking effects: trees are made to look older than they really are with broad trunks and gnarled branches; trees are made to imitate wind-swept or lightning-struck trees in the wild; Cryptomeria japonica specimens are often pruned to resemble free-growing trees.
Some designers are using zoke (miscellaneous plants) as well as the niwaki to create a more "natural" mood to the landscape. Most traditional garden designers still rely primarily on the rarefied niwaki palette. The principles of niwaki may be applied to garden trees all over the world and are not restricted to Japanese gardens.

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Очень интересное и полезное видео, СПАСИБО!

[@lifeinruraljapan]

Your welcome

[@murraycrosbee5873]

Thanks, Garry. This series of videos on Bonzai and Niwaki trees are fascinating.

[@lifeinruraljapan]

I am glad you are enjoying them Murray. I am going to a bonsai exhibition next month it should be good. I am going to make a video on it.

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@@lifeinruraljapan, I will look forward to seeing those videos of the bonsai exhibition.

[@donnajacobs1722]

Very nice I love Niwaki trees

[@lifeinruraljapan]

I an so happy you liked it. Thanks for watching.

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Beautiful!thank you for posting!

[@lifeinruraljapan]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching

[@mikedidmyloan]

Amazing!!

[@lifeinruraljapan]

They are

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Very nice jee video

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Thanks

[@rozennrenault3361]

Vers nice! I liké niwaki a lot. I am trying toi do some by myself....could you give lessons on niwaki cutting?

[@lifeinruraljapan]

That’s a good idea. I will have to look into it.

[@StanOwden]

Beautiful way of training your garden trees. Any idea what tree species is that on 1:00 ?

[@lifeinruraljapan]

I am not exactly sure. They use a lot of pine trees like black pine. It’s not a black pine I know that. I will try to find out for you. The trees are at the local temple I will try to ask someone there.

[@StanOwden]

@@lifeinruraljapan ​ It reminds me of yew, but perhaps it is a local variety. A very beautiful tree. Until yesterday, I had no idea about the existence of niwaki. Thanks to your video, I now know what it is.

[@lifeinruraljapan]

They are very beautiful. Japan has a lot of interesting things I am glad you enjoyed it. Some of the bonsai videos are really interesting. One place I go to he looks after the Emperor’s bonsai’s a really nice guy.

[@StanOwden]

@@lifeinruraljapan I bet he has a lot of interesting stories to tell.

[@lifeinruraljapan]

Sure do

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🌀 Wonderful Niwaki 🪐🌟\\\\\\\\🇨🇦////////// ♾!✌

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Glad you liked them