The Ancient Art of Bonsai: Glossary, Chapter I

To find out the meanings of all the particular words that are part of the world of bonsai, here is a practical and easy to navigate online glossary.

A

• apex - the tip of a tree or branch

B

• bonsai - Japanese term for the the art of cultivating and training a plant to create the illusion of a dwarfed tree.

• bonkei - tray plantings containing stones, trees, plants and figurines

• branch bender - a clamp or jack used to bend branches or trunk

• branch splitter - a cutting tool used to divide branch or trunk to allow it to be bent more easily.

• broom style - A training form for bonsai which resembles an inverted broom with a single trunk dividing into many symmetric branchlets which subdivide into twigs and so forth. See Hokidachi

• bunjin - Japanese term for an educated person or literati, a tree grown in this style, usually emphasizing a thin trunk, with a lean appearance and container with rough-hewn appearance.

C

• callus - The raised roll of tissue that forms as a wound heals and closes

• cambium - The layer of tissue between the xylem and phloem, where new wood is formed.

• chokkan - Japanese term for the formal upright style

• clump style - see Kabaduchi

• concave cutters

• cutting - a bit of a plant that has been cut and rooted. A means to propagate.

D

• deciduous - a plant that sheds its leaves and enters a state of dormancy annually

E

• eda - Japanese term for branch

• evergreen - a tree that does not shed its leaves in winter

F

• fungicide - a chemical used to combat the growth of fungus

G

• graft - to join a stem of one plant with another so they grow together. Grafting is used both to propagate plant species and to add foliage where none previously existed on a bonsai.

• grafting knife

H

• han-kengai - Japanese term for semi-cascade - See also Kengai

• hokidachi - Japanese Term for Broom Style

I

• ishitsuki - Japanese term for root-over-rock style

J

• jin - Pronounced JEEN - Japanese term for snags of deadwood on the ends of branches or trunk.

K

• kabaduchi - Japanese term for clump style bonsai

• kengai - Japanese term for cascade style. See also han-kengai

 
 

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